Research Paper on:
1960s and Its Cultural Importance

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lights, but the truth is that the movement then was anything but commercial. In fact, the idea that firms are now selling newly fabricated relics of the past is rather  ironic. The capitalist system is now creating memorabilia for a decade that was anything but materialistic. In fact, much of the fervor of the sixties has been lost to the  decades that would follow and promote selfishness, greed, and connectivity. Although the decades to follow the sixties would be entrenched in commercialism, technology and progress, the sixties may be viewed  as something of a time warp, or a stepping stone in history where man could rest and regroup. Indeed, it was an unusual decade and nothing that has followed has  captured such excitement. Names such as Abbie Hoffman, Angela Davis and Martin Luther King come to mind when one mentions the 1960s. These activists, each railing against the  system in their own right, were a part of the movements of the sixties and seventies that proliferated rallies and riots, some of which were accepted and others which were  earth shattering, like Kent State. The protest that would occur on May 4, 1970, and spur the creation of the Crosby, Stills Nash & Young song that highlighted the killings  of four innocent students, was perhaps one of the last events. Everything changed after that, but throughout much of the 1960s there was attention to civil rights and politics. Young  people were politically active. Abbie Hoffman is a writer in his own right but he was an activist all the same. He was one of the infamous Chicago Seven, a  group that was charged with conspiracy to incite a riot at the Democratic National Convention. In looking at the student movements of the sixties, one can see how they