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In reply to the discussion: 1968 (Your Help, Please!) [View all]2banon
(7,321 posts)I remember that year well. Living in the south, some trends were a bit behind, but I intended to make up for that in spades that year. Bobby's assassination was on my graduation day.
The day Martin Luther King was assassinated was the first time I ever heard the word "Black Power" voiced by a Brother in my choir class. He was angry and it was palpable.
That was the year that I got turned on to a lot of things, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Orange Sunshine, Purple Haze, Marijuana and communal living, loving, getting high and getting politically active with radical anti-war Viet Nam Vets and Peace Corps volunteers, all together in one house.. Was introduced to the Chapel Hill SDS chapter.. it was so over my head but I tried to soak up every word. Never heard of Marx until then. Never heard Capitalism discussed from that point of view until then.
Hadn't thought about this stuff until I saw the heading 1968. A very special year for me. rites of passage in every way conceivable.