Pete Seeger was a major figure in ... Then, he joined the Young Communist League at age 17. In 1938, Seeger dropped out and returned to his hometown, New York City, where folklorist Alan Lomax ...

NEW YORK CITY, March 29--Pete Seeger '40 was found guilty this after-noon on ten counts for contempt of Congress. He faces the possibility of up to a $100 fine and a year in jail on each count.

Peter Yarrow, a member of the folksinging trio Peter, Paul and Mary, remembers Pete Seeger as a “beacon of… ...

NEW YORK CITY, March 27--Balladeer Pete Seeger's long-delayed trial for contempt of Congress finally got under way today before Judge Murphy in a U.S. District Court here. The ten-count indictment ...