Jean Smart

Smart was born in Seattle, Washington. Seeger and Hays founded communal homes called Almanac Houses, but the group fell apart soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Her most recent role has been on Center of the Universe. More recordings followed, but blacklisting and internal friction soon drove the group apart. Jean Smart is a United States film and television actress. She starred on Designing Women from 1986 to 1991 and Kim Possible from 2002 to 2004. The second album was Talking Union, a collection of labor songs, many of which were intensely anti-Roosevelt. Politics and music remained closely intertwined with the members' political beliefs, which were far-left and occasionally led to controversial associations with the Communist Party USA. Their first release was an album called Songs for John Doe, would urged non-intervention in World War II, and was made with the help of Eric Bernay (of Keynote), Joe Thompson (of NBC), Nicholas Ray (future film director) and Alan Lomax (musicologist).

in February of 1941. Mainstream national success began after the American Youth Congress meeting in Washington D.C. Members Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie began playing together informally after Seeger and Hays had been playing at left-wing political functions for a time. The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who achieved brief popularity in the early 1940s.