“I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.”

— Joan Baez

Pop Chronicles, Show 19 - Blowin' in the Wind: Pop discovers folk music http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19769/m1/, interview recorded 12.3.1967 http://www.library.unt.edu/resolveuid/24bc6899959ba29ac6feca22c5ad8ed9

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American singer 1941

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