page_title: Abbie Hoffman
hierarchical_section_title: Abbie Hoffman
caption_attribution_description: Abbie Hoffman visiting the University of Oklahoma to protest the Vietnam War
context_page_description: Abbot Howard Hoffman, better known as Abbie Hoffman, was an American political and social activist, anarchist, socialist, and revolutionary who co-founded the Youth International Party. He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Power movement.
  Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. While the defendants were initially convicted of intent to incite a riot, the verdicts were overturned on appeal.
  Hoffman continued his activism into the 1970s, and remains an icon of the anti-war movement and the counterculture era. He died by suicide, via a phenobarbital overdose in 1989.
context_section_description: Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989), better known as Abbie Hoffman, was an American political and social activist, anarchist, socialist, and revolutionary who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Power movement.
  Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. While the defendants were initially convicted of intent to incite a riot, the verdicts were overturned on appeal.
  Hoffman continued his activism into the 1970s, and remains an icon of the anti-war movement and the counterculture era. He died by suicide, via a phenobarbital overdose in 1989.
caption: Hoffman (center) visiting the University of Oklahoma to protest the Vietnam War, c. 1969
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