The first example of this is from the Great Depression when the Bonus Expeditionary Army assembled and camped in front of the U.S. capitol in Washington, D.C. asking for an early repayment for their services in WWI under the World War Adjusted Compensation Act. Faced with the harsh reality during the Great Depression, these WWI veterans desperately needed their money and resorted to a protest. A second example is during the Vietnam War when the counterculture of the 1960s began. Many Americans were responding to the war effort with anti-war attitudes and even musicians, such as Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Bob Dylan, were writing music portraying an anti-war attitude as
The first example of this is from the Great Depression when the Bonus Expeditionary Army assembled and camped in front of the U.S. capitol in Washington, D.C. asking for an early repayment for their services in WWI under the World War Adjusted Compensation Act. Faced with the harsh reality during the Great Depression, these WWI veterans desperately needed their money and resorted to a protest. A second example is during the Vietnam War when the counterculture of the 1960s began. Many Americans were responding to the war effort with anti-war attitudes and even musicians, such as Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Bob Dylan, were writing music portraying an anti-war attitude as