... years (Smith, Ron 6.). Then what changed between then and Woodstock? The 1960s saw some very important changes in society. The civil rights movement was alive and well, Vietnam was sending hundreds of thousands of United States Military Forces into an undeclared war with the Vietcong, and the deaths of the times to most influential figures, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President John Fitzgerald Kennedy ... and extreme anti-war activist alike. Suddenly the youth had a voice and it was loud and electric. However, mainstream acceptance was non-existent. They needed a platform to sho...

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