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born Nov. 30, 1936, Worcester, Mass., U.S. died April 12, 1989, New Hope, Pa.
American political activist and founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies), who was known for his successful media events.
Hoffman, who received psychology degrees from both Brandeis University (1959) and the University of California, Berkeley (1960), was active in the American civil rights movement before turning his energies to protesting the Vietnam War and the American economic and political system. His acts of protest blurred the line between political action and guerrilla theatre, and they utilized absurdist humour ... (100 of 377 words)
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(1936-89), U.S. social and political activist; longhair political-prankster symbol of 1960s radicalism, born in Worcester, Mass.; manipulated media with street ("guerrilla") theater; trying to involve hippies in antiwar movement and civil rights, founded Youth International party (Yippies) 1968; most famous staged protest was bloody battle at 1968 Democratic national convention, which led to raucous Chicago 7 trial for conspiracy to incite a riot (convictions overturned); to avoid trial after arrest for selling cocaine, went underground 1974; cut his trademark unruly hair and lived as free-lance writer-activist Barry Freed in upstate New York; resurfaced 1980; apparent suicide, died in 1989 from alcohol-sedative overdose; books include ’Steal This Book’, ’Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture’, ’Steal This Urine Test’.
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