Youth International Party
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The Youth International Party, commonly called the Yippies, was an American youth-oriented radical and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the late 1960
YIP poster advertising the 1968 Festival of Life.
A "Yippie!" button on display at the Chicago History Museum
Yippie demonstrator in January 1969
Poster advertising Yippie-sponsored Smoke-In at Ohio State University, April 29, 1978.
Abbie Hoffman
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Abbot Howard Hoffman was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party and was a member of the Chicago Seven. He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Pow
Youth International Party
…theater pranks and was once referred to as the 'Groucho Marxists'." The Yippies had no formal membership or hierarchy. The organization was founded by Abbie and Anita Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Nancy Kurshan, and Paul Krassner, at a meeting in the Hoffmans' New York apartment on December 31, 1967. According to…
Hoffman in 1969
Hoffman in Tallahassee, Florida, 1989
Hoffman (right) with wife, Anita, and son in 1972
Hoffman and Johanna Lawrenson in 1981