Guy and Candie Carawan Collection (Photographs of Johns Island, S.C. by Robert Yellin and others)

Guy Carawan (1927-2015) was a musicologist and folk singer who worked closely with the Highlander Folk Center though much of his life. He and his wife Candie also collected music from coastal South Carolina in the 1960s and documented the music of the civil rights movement through its most important phases. The collection in this library is photographs from various photographers whose work illustrated books that they published. The major collection of their life's work is in the Southern Folklife Collection in Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Guy and Candie Carawan Collection Photographs by Robert Yellin Mrs. Betsy Pinckney by Robert Yellin (2 copies) (p. 2) Mrs. Isabel Simmons by Robert Yellin (p. 19) Mrs. Betsy Pinckney by Robert Yellin (p. 24) Mrs. Belle Green by Robert Yellin (p. 29) Mrs. Belle Green by Robert Yellin (p. 32) N/A by Robert Yellin (p. 35) Mrs Julia Michael by Robert Yellin (2 copies) (p. 37) Mr. Willie Hunter by Robert Yellin (p. 50) Mr. Willie Huner and Mrs. Janie Hunter with Family by Robert Yellin (p. 60) Mr. Willie Hunter with Grandson Linnet by Robert Yellin (3 copies) (p. 62) Moving Star Hall (?) by Robert Yellin (p. 64) Mrs. Mary Deas by Robert Yellin (p. 72) Mr. Lee Pinckney by Robert Yellin (2 copies) (p. 82) Rev. James Grant (?) by Robert Yellin (?) (p. 87) Mrs. Bertha Smith and Mrs. Isabel Simmons by Robert Yellin (pp. 94-95) Hunter and Pinckney Family Children by Robert Yellin (p. 112) Hunter and Pinckney Family Children by Robert Yellin (3 copies) (p. 115) Miss Ruth Pinckney and Miss Louise Jenkins by Robert Yellin (2 copies) (p. 130) Mrs. Alice Wine by Robert Yellin (3 copies) (p. 148) Mrs. Alice Wine by Robert Yellin (p. 157) N/A by Robert Yellin (p. 167) N/A by Robert Yellin (2 copies) (p. 171) Mrs. Alice Wine, Mrs. Septima Clark, Mrs. Bernice Robinson by Ida Berman (p. 200) Additional images: Three unidentified photos by Robert Yellin from the book’s prologue. There are also fourteen photographs with no caption or photographer in the collection that are not included in the book. Page numbers in parentheses refer to pages on which the photographs appear in Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life: The People of Johns Island, South Carolina—Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs.