The group members were notably Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman and had formed the group in 1948. <span>The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. They were forced to disband following congressional inquest into the group led by McCarthyism, which even convicted Seeger for contempt. </span>
Langston and Martin were very close and even traveled to Nigeria together in 1960. Martin loved Langston's work because it really spoke to him and related to the civil rights movement.
