A Generation Defined
I have been having an ongoing conversation with my father about the Occupy Wall Street protests going on around the nation and how they compare to the protests of the 60's. I was born in the 60's, 1967 to be exact and less then a year later Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were both dead. I wish I could say I remember it but I believe I was likely more concerned with the flavor of my creamed spinach. As a result in order to gain perspective I have turned to someone that was much more cognizant of the changes going on in the nation. In an odd way, we tend to remember the period with some nostalgia yet my father reminds me that it was the seeming hopelessness of it all that drove both him and my mother independently of each other to migrate to Alaska. Bloody Sunday, Selma AL I wanted to know if the protests of the 60's as undefined and counter culture as they were, had an impact on public policy. My father's conclusions were that they did and he listed a