Carolanne Marie "Candie" Carawan (née Anderson)[1][2] (born 1939) is an American civil rights activist, singer and author[3] known for popularizing the protest song "We Shall Overcome" to the American Civil Rights Movement with her husband Guy Carawan in the 1960s.
"[6] In March 1960, she attended her first meeting at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee to help teach workshops, where she met Guy Carawan.
She becomes a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)[7] At one point during her career in activism, after two weeks of sit-ins she was arrested and put into jail.
[8][9] Candie says SNCC should get more credit for reducing the fear in Mississippi and prompting many people to join the movement.
[citation needed] Carawan moved back to California to finish her senior year in Pomona College[10] and spread the word about what she had learned in the south.
[11], We Shall Overcome[12], Voices from the Mountains[13], Coal Mining Women[14], and Sing for Freedom [15] are just a few of the many collections they have created over of the years.