Abbie_Hoffman__Rebel_of_the_Sixties

Abbie Hoffman: Rebel of the Sixties The sixties were a time of radical change for America. A time when there was a decline in what was thought to be normal. Family values and morals were a thing of the past. There was an increase in drug use, casual and premarital sex. This was just the beginning of the changing times. There were many people fighting for their rights. There were protests and demonstrations for every cause imaginable and in the middle of most of it was Abbie Hoffman. Abbie Hoffman was an instigator and supporter for many of the most famous events in the sixties. I remember living through the fifties and getting along quite well without doing any good. I wasn’t raised in a commie intellectual-type family. I got to see blacks demonstrating outside of Woolworth’s, being carted off to jail in small southern towns. I remember seeing them on TV singing freedom songs and saying there’s something happening in their lives which is not happening in mine right now, maybe there’s something about this working for good, putting your energy into something else than making money or a career (Sloman 289). abbie, jezer, movement, hoffman, out, because, became, worcester, hippies, about, abbie’s, yippies, yippie, political, sncc, sixties, rights, people, massachusetts, family, didn’t, berkeley, become, time, thought, summer, southern, something, organizer, one, often, national, mother, lsd, long, just, himself, helped, group, go, friends, freedom, even, civil, challenge, campaign, brought, been, against, wouldn’t