"Blackboard "

by Cliff Joseph (1969)

 

 

Additional social and political expressions for the year 1969

 

 

 

Music to take you Back in Time


political event:

Nixon continued to expand the war, but fearing public opinion the President ordered a highly secret bombing of forces in Communist Cambodia during March 1969.

 

social events:


Woodstock Festival for Music and Peace (August 1969) held on a 600-acre farm near the tiny rural town of Bethel, NY. 400,000 young people attended for 3 days to free themselves from societal repression.

 

drama:


Free Southern Theater

 

sculpture:


"Recognition" (1970) Elizabeth Catlettt

 

film:


To Sir, With Love (1967). Sidney Poitier adopts a British accent for his role in a London slum. He transforms a class of uncouth students into a group of model pupils


dance:

Charles Moore

 

 


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