>> my outlook is that topical songs should be sung because we don't do anything about say the bombs, you know, the whole situation comes to an end. >> there's gotta be an alternative to whatever ways of life are offered to them, you know. i mean democrat, republican, and i would like to offer some kind of alternative, somehow, you know? >> folk revival scene had a big part of politics. you can't get left politics out of woody guthrie or pete seger. and so the greenwich village movement was there to celebrate people's culture. >> if you like the music, you really were signing on for their ways of looking at the world too. and then eventually one guy emerges as being special. ♪ a bullet from the back of a bush took medgar evers' blood ♪ >> during that time in the '60s as that cultural revolution was