SOC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 1969 White Paper, Prague Spring
22 Aug 2016
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By the time we got to woodstock, we were half a million strong, and everywhere there was song and celebration. And i dreamed i saw the bombers jet planes riding shotgun in the sky, turning into butterflies above our nation. (crosby, stills, nash, & Repression works only to strengthen and knit the repression (j. steinbeck) The civil rights movement, which began in the 1950s, helped to provoke the protest cycle by providing a model of effective collective action and a vision of freedom & equality that was emulated by other movements worldwide. In the 1960s the world was experiencing a major wave of protest. The vietnam war was an important stimulus, but the cycle or protest of the. 1960s was more than a protest against the war & american imperialism: it was an important stimulus, but it was not the only factor.
