Good News in History, July 14
On this day 103 years ago,
Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma. The folk singer and songwriter who traveled with farmers displaced during the Dust Bowl, became famous for writing “
This Land Is Your Land.” He was a major influence on Bruce Springsteen and the young Bob Dylan, whom he mentored before he died in 1967. Woody’s protest songs were often performed with the slogan
This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. (1912)
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