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During the years following World War II, the notion of freedom in America manifested itself in a myriad of new ways. There were Freedom Schools, a Freedom Summer, Free Speech Movement, free love, free markets, and Young Americans for Freedom. To some, particularly those on the Left, freedom was a legal concept being denied to minority groups who sought equality within an oppressive society. It also existed as an abstract ideal pursued by those who felt shackled spiritually or intellectually. Norm Fruchter, a civil rights and New Left activist, commented that “an individual is free only when he can effectively control, and carry out, all the decisions affecting the way he lives his life.”1 In June 1963, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) approved the essay “America and New Era,” which stated bluntly that their “hope is human freedom.”2
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Steven Ives director, The American Experience: 1964 (Boston: WGBH PBS Video, 2014)
Pete Seeger, Pete Seeger in His Own Words, eds. Rob Rosenthal and Sam Rosenthal (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2012), 320.
This view of power in the South was not found only among Marxists. Respected political scientist E. E. S chat t Schneider set forth the same analysis in 1960. E. E. Schattschneider, The Semisovereign People: A Realist’s View of Democracy in America (Hinsdale, IL: Dryden Press, cl960, 1975), 70–80.
Joel Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies (Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research Inc., 1990).
Sid Griffin, Shelter from the Storm: Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Years (London: Jawbone Press, 2010), 38–41.
Benjamin Hedin, Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader (New York: WW Norton, 2004), 220.
Seth Rogovoy, Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet (New York: Scribner, 2007), 230.
Sergei Petrov and Rene Fontaine, Masked and Anonymous, directed by Larry Charles (Culver City, CA: Sony Pictures Classics, 2003)
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Taylor, J., Israelson, C. (2015). Freedom and Justice. In: The Political World of Bob Dylan. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137477477_3
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