Abbie Hoffman
4 records in the archive · 1969–1971
About the artist
Abbie Hoffman, born 30 November 1936 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, died 12 April 1989 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA. Political and social activist of the 1960s/70s who helped found the Youth International Party (Yippies), and took an active interest in the Vietnam War. Hoffman faced trial in 1969 for inciting riots, as one of the eight people arrested outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago in August 1968 (The Chicago Eight), all high-profile activists - Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin from the hippie movement, the Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, political activists Rennie Davis…