Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I nga tau 1950, ko nga kaiwaiata maui-maui penei i a Paul Robeson me The Weavers i tiimata ki te kite he uaua te ora na te awe o te McCarthyism. I tae atu a Seeger ki te Hainamana Communist, na reira i tangohia ai tana uruwhenua US. I te tau 1957, i whakahe te Tari Kawanatanga o Amerika ki te haere a Seeger ki te 6th World Festival of Youth and Students
i Moscow (i te wahi i aroturuki ai te CIA i te roopu US), a he tino whakahē i tana haerenga ki Haina i taua haerenga, i te taha o te "korero" mana.