Bob Dylan and his political influence from Suze Rotolo

Don Hunstein Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo, Greenwich Village, New York City 1963

“A lot of what I gave him was a look at how the other half lived — left wing things that he didn’t know. He knew about Woody and Pete Seeger, but I was working for CORE and went on youth marches for civil rights, and all that was new to him.” Suze Rotolo

“How many nights I stayed up and wrote songs and showed them to [Suze] and asked, ‘Is this right?’ Because I knew her mother was associated with unions, and she was into this equality-freedom thing long before I was. I checked the songs out with her.” Bob Dylan