--- title: Joan Baez at 75: How She Faced Discrimination in Her Youth description: The folk singer's 75th birthday is on Jan. 9, 2016 canonical: https://time.com/4159359/joan-baez-75-discrimination/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-08T12:00:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:35:46.334Z article:section: History og:title: Joan Baez at 75: How She Faced Discrimination in Her Youth og:description: The folk singer's 75th birthday is on Jan. 9, 2016 og:url: https://time.com/4159359/joan-baez-75-discrimination/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67ee560cf7da08d8/6987840aa988ca823b6acf84/1101621123_400.jpg?branch=production&width=400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 400 og:image:height: 225 og:image:alt: Nov. 23, 1962, cover og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joan Baez at 75: How She Faced Discrimination in Her Youth twitter:description: The folk singer's 75th birthday is on Jan. 9, 2016 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67ee560cf7da08d8/6987840aa988ca823b6acf84/1101621123_400.jpg?branch=production&width=400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Surprising Ways Joan Baez Faced Down Discrimination > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jan 8, 2016 12:00 PM UTC  The Nov. 23, 1962, cover of TIME The Nov. 23, 1962, cover of TIME TIME  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jan 8, 2016 12:00 PM UTC Joan Baez will celebrate her 75th birthday this weekend as one of the most legendary folk singers in American history. As TIME explained in a 1962 cover story written by John McPhee (although without his byline, as was then customary at the magazine), Baez’s connection to folk had little to do with the music’s history or geographic origins. It was all emotion. “I don’t care very much about where a song came from or why or even what it says,” she said. “All I care about is how it sounds and the feeling in it.” And Baez, even as a very young woman, had a large well from which to draw. The academic career of her father, a physicist, meant she spent her youth moving frequently, and his job took him “to various universities and cities ranging from Los Angeles to Buffalo to Baghdad to Boston and, most recently, Paris, where he is now a consultant for UNESCO,” TIME noted. Along the way, Baez—whose father was Mexican and mother was English-Scottish—had a chance to experience some of the nation’s most deep-seated problems first-hand. It wasn’t always easy to be a mixed-race girl in the 1940s and ’50s, but the Baez family came up with surprising ways to face that problem, the story explained: --- > “” --- She did grow up, but those experiences stuck with her as she used her platform to advocate for peace and equality. Once, the story noted, Baez stopped singing in the middle of a concert in Texas to note the unusually diverse makeup of the crowd. “They all clapped and cheered,” she was quoted saying. “I was so surprised and happy.” **_Read the full story, here in the TIME Vault:_** [Sibyl With Guitar](http://time.com/vault/issue/1962-11-23/page/1/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4159359/joan-baez-75-discrimination/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4159359/joan-baez-75-discrimination/"},"headline":"The Surprising Ways Joan Baez Faced Down Discrimination","datePublished":"2016-01-08T12:00:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:35:46.334Z","description":"The folk singer is turning 75","url":"https://time.com/4159359/joan-baez-75-discrimination/","keywords":["Music","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67ee560cf7da08d8/6987840aa988ca823b6acf84/1101621123_400.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67ee560cf7da08d8/6987840aa988ca823b6acf84/1101621123_400.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nov. 23, 1962, cover","caption":"Nov. 23, 1962, cover","creditText":"TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4159359/joan-baez-75-discrimination/","name":"The Surprising Ways Joan Baez Faced Down Discrimination"}}]}] ```