History 2132A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jimi Hendrix, Altamont Raceway Park, Myron Floren
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Socio-political forces in (cid:883)9(cid:888)(cid:882)"s- fighting for equality, civil rights movements. The change being promote had not been realized by end of (cid:883)9(cid:888)(cid:882)"s. Limits of change- they start to produce radical off shots. Summer of love 1967- woodstock came on the heals of this hippie movement. Everyone gets along and there is peace and music, This congealed in san francisco-> this spirits continues on to this day. Altamont speedway- 1969 -> nam was suppose to be about helping the vietnams more damage. University of wisconsin-> people who were making the chemical warfare tried to recruit college students, protest broke out on campuses around the us. The weather underground-> needed more radical change, they wanted political change and would use random acts of violence, blew up washroom in the political embassy, peace and love is done, Don"t need a weather man to tell you when it rain bob dylan.