Pete Seeger

A big mountain has lifted into the Sky.

Pete Seeger is traveling on -- and, at and in Wherever, he'll be busy on behalf of very good causes. I've listened to his great stuff since I was very young -- along with the fine works of Woody Guthrie, Earl Robinson, Joe Glazer, Paul Robeson.

One of our good list members, and a very old friend of ours from 'way back Arizona days, Clyde Appleton of Tucson, and himself a fine songster, has had a good deal of contact with Pete Seeger over much time.

I'll always remember the October day in 1962, when Brother Seeger and lawyer Bill Kunstler came to our home at Tougaloo College for a long visit. At that time, we all were developing what became the highly successful economic boycott of downtown Jackson -- the springboard for the massive Jackson Movement. While we talked about that, both men jiggled Baby Maria on their knees.

Pete Seeger was -- and remains -- a true long distance runner for a myriad of fine social justice causes. We need many more of that great breed.

Hunter Bear




HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis 
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk 
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO
www.hunterbear.org 
(much social justice material)

See my reflection On Being a Militant and Radical
Organizer -- And an Effective One:
http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm

The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
(Expanded, and with more photos in Fall 2012. Material on our Native
background.) And see Personal Background Narrative: 
http://hunterbear.org/narrative.htm (Updated into 2012) 

For the new (11/2011) and expanded/updated
edition of my "Organizer's Book," JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- 
with a new and substantial introduction by me. We are now at 
the 50th Anniversary of the massive Jackson Movement
of 1962-63: http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm