Timeline Woody Guthrie: This Land Is Your Land

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• 1912 Woody Guthrie born in Okemah, Oklahoma Woodrow Wilson Guthrie Named after the newly nominated Woodrow Wilson.
• 1929 Woody Guthrie moves to Pampa, Texas Oil boom town Learns guitar and plays in a cowboy band.
• 1935 Woody Guthrie lives through Black Sunday Dust Bowl The great dust storm inspires So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh.
• 1937 Woody Guthrie gets a radio show in Los Angeles KFVD Sings for the Okie migrants in California's camps.
• 1940 Woody Guthrie records Dust Bowl Ballads Victor Records His first commercial album, songs of the Okie migration.
• 1940 Woody Guthrie writes This Land Is Your Land New York An answer to Irving Berlin's God Bless America.
• 1940 Woody Guthrie recorded by Alan Lomax Library of Congress Hours of songs and stories for the Library of Congress. Meets Pete Seeger the same month.
• 1941 Woody Guthrie joins the Almanac Singers With Pete Seeger A folk group singing union and anti-fascist songs.
• 1941 Woody Guthrie writes the Columbia River songs Roll On, Columbia Writes 26 songs in a month for the Bonneville Power Administration.
• 1943 Woody Guthrie publishes Bound for Glory Autobiography His semi-fictional autobiography, later filmed with David Carradine.
• 1943 – 1945 Woody Guthrie serves in the Merchant Marine Second World War Sails with fellow singer Cisco Houston. His guitar reads This Machine Kills Fascists.
• 1944 Woody Guthrie records for Moses Asch Folkways Hundreds of recordings, including This Land Is Your Land.
• 1952 Woody Guthrie diagnosed with Huntington's disease Illness The hereditary disease that had killed his mother slowly ends his career.
• 1956 Woody Guthrie admitted to Greystone Park hospital New Jersey Spends his last years in hospitals.
• 1961 Woody Guthrie visited by the young Bob Dylan Pilgrimage Dylan comes to New York to meet his hero and writes Song to Woody.
• 1967 Woody Guthrie dies in New York Aged 55 Dies at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens.
• 1988 Woody Guthrie inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Early influence Inducted as an early influence.
• 2013 Woody Guthrie Center opens in Tulsa Archive and museum His archive moves to a museum in his home state.