Jacqueline Steiner

Jacqueline Steiner (September 11, 1924 – January 25, 2019)[1] was an American folk singer, songwriter and social activist.

was co-written with Bess Lomax Hawes as part of a Boston political campaign in 1949 and later altered slightly by the popular folk group The Kingston Trio, becoming one of their hits in 1959.

[4] During her time in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she began singing with other musicians who gathered at Bess Lomax Hawes' house, including Sam and Arnold Berman, brothers from Roxbury.

"[4] Steiner married Arnold Berman and moved back to New York while he studied physics at Columbia University (they divorced in 1954).

[4] Steiner joined the Norwalk, Connecticut branch of the African American civil rights advocacy group the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1991, serving as the chapter's secretary for several years and receiving the Roy Wilkins Leadership Award for service from the state NAACP in 2010.