Woody Guthrie
Born July 14, 1912
Okemah, Oklahoma
Died October 3, 1967
Queens, New York
Songwriter, folksinger, social activist
Woody Guthrie. Archive Photos. Reproduced by permission.
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Woody Guthrie
Born July 14, 1912
Okemah, Oklahoma
Died October 3, 1967
New York, New York
Folk singer whose songs raised consciousness about the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s
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Guthrie, Woody (1912-1967)
Folk singer, composer, writer and homegrown radical, Woody Guthrie became the self-appointed folk spokesman for the Dust Bowl migrants and agricultural workers during the Gr...
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Writer and performer of folk songs, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-1967) composed "This Land Is Your Land," an unofficial national anthem.Guthrie was born July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma. He had litt...
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Woody Guthrie biographer Joe Klein was told by Alan Lomax, the folklore archivist who collected recordings of Guthrie for the Library of Congress, that he would never really know Guthrie until he unde...
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