Death of Pete Seeger

May 3, 1919 - January 27, 2014
New York, New York | Age 94

Folk singer, activist dies in New York
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CHRIS TALBOTT, The Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Unable to carry his beloved banjo, Pete Seeger used a different but equally formidable instrument, his mere presence, to instruct yet another generation of young people how to effect change through song and determination two years ago.

A surging crowd, two canes and seven decades as a history-sifting singer and rabble-rouser buoyed him as he led an Occupy Wall Street protest through Manhattan in 2011.

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