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He was kept off commercial television for more than a decade after tangling with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Repeatedly pressed by the committee to reveal whether he had sung for Communists, Seeger responded sharply: I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American. He was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal. By the 1990s, no longer a party member but still styling himself a communist with a small C, Seeger was heaped with national honors. fredericknewspost/news/folk-singer-activist-pete-seeger-dies-in-ny/article_a5fee874-880e-11e3-950e-001a4bcf6878.html
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:23:12 +0000

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