American folk icon Woody Guthrie died 50 years ago, at the age of 55. At this year’s Folk Awards, he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Woody Guthrie for Folk Awards Hall of Fame Singer ...

An accident in the early 1950s left Woody Guthrie unable to play the guitar. After moving back to New York, Guthrie continued ...

Woody Guthrie, shown here in the 1940s, created great lines in songs and drawings. Bettmann / Corbis; Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives And Collections, SI / Copyright ...