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 Joan Baez was a folk singer who sang for social justice and racial equality in America.  Joan Baez was born in New York, and is of Mexican decent. She attended Boston University and often sang in coffeehouses and small clubs. She became an hit when she attened the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. However, this is not the only reason she is so impressive. Since Joan was a subject of racial slurs and discrimination because of her Mexican decent, she became involded with social causes, like civil rights and nonviolence. Joan would protest, and sometimes she was even arrested because of it. In 1967 she was denied to play at the Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American revolution. During the 1960s she added politics to her songs. Joan supported the Amnesty International and Humanitas International. Today in the Middle East and Latin America, Joan still sings for peaceful solutions to violence. 