ALL YOU JIM CROW FASCISTS! WOODY GUTHRIE'S FREEDOM SONGS explores Woody Guthrie’s anti-racist songs and activism. Conventionally known for his championing of the poor white Dust Bowl migrants, Guthrie also left an extensive body of songs condemning Jim Crow segregation, race hatred and racial fascism. Most of these songs were never recorded, but they are the legacy of Guthrie’s own personal transformation from a casual Oklahoma racist in his youth to a committed civil rights activist working and singing with the likes of Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Paul Robeson in the 1940s and 50s.

Introductory remarks by Carl Pedersen and Ray Haberski.

Will Kaufman is a Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire, England. He comes from a musical family. In 2008, Will was awarded the Woody Guthrie Research Fellowship from the BMI Foundation and the Woody Guthrie Foundation.
Will Kaufman is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World.

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Carl Pedersen is an Adjunct Professor at the Center for the Study of the Americas, CBS. Carl Pedersen's research ranges widely, from African-American studies to US politics and society and Caribbean history. His latest book is Obama's America (2009). More

Ray Haberski is visiting Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the Center for the Study of the Americas for 2008-2009. Ray’s primary research areas are U.S. Cultural and intellectual history, U.S. Movie culture, U.S. Religion and society, U.S. Religion and political ideologies, and Current trends in U.S. culture, society and politics. His most recent book is The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court (2008). More