One didn't simply go to Woodstock: one lived through it. In August 1969, the
             Woodstock Festival was the largest counterculture event ever staged, attracting some
             500,000 people and featuring many of the country's top acts. Two decades later,
             Woodstock has come to mean more than just "three days of fun and music"; it
             symbolizes a time of community, exuberance, and intensity since lost. Woodstock
             festival gave power to the youth, united people of all ages, races, and sexes, and defined
             a generation, making it one of the most important musical events of all time.
             In order to understand the impact and importance of the Woodstock Festival one
             must first examine the society that preceded the 1960's and set the stage so to speak for
             the events of the Woodstock Festival. The end of World War II brought thousands of
             young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives and start new families in new
             home and new jobs. With energy never before experienced, American industry
             expanded to meet peacetime needs. Americans began buying goods not available during
             the war, which created corporate expansion and jobs. Growth was everywhere. The
             baby boom was underway. Part of the what happened in the 1950's with increased
             employment and income, families had more money to buy things. People could afford
             single family dwellings and suburbia was born . In the 1950's a big change happened in
             public education. In 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren and other members of the Supreme
             Court ruled that separate facilities for blacks did not make those facilities equal according
             to the Constitution . Integration of the public classroom came about across the nation as
             Perhaps one of the things which most characterize the 1950's was a strong
             element of conservatism and anticommunist felling which ran throughout much of
             society. The phrase "under G...