Hippie Movement
Mr. Gordon’s World History
• “What’s in store for
me in the direction
that I do not take?”
–Jack Kerouac
Key Terms
• 1960s Movement
• Born in California
– San Francisco
• Haight & Ashbury Streets
• Counterculture Values
– Free Love, Folk Music,
Environment, Communal
life, Recreational Drugs
• Psychedelic Drugs
– LSD, hash, pscilocybin
• Acid Tests (Parties)
• Events
– 1964 Further Road Trip
– 1967 Summer of Love
– 1969 Woodstock
– 197Project MKULTRA
• Famous People
– Ken Kesey, Abbie Hoffman,
Tim Leary, Alan Ginsburg
– Flower Children, Merry
Pranksters
• Theme: "tune in, turn on, and
drop out“
• Underground newspapers
• Flower Power
The Grateful Dead
Was The People’s Band
Escapin' through the lily fields
I came across an empty space
It trembled and exploded
Left a bus stop in its place
The bus came by and I got on
That's when it all began
There was cowboy Neal
At the wheel
Of a bus to never-ever land
- Grateful Dead, lyrics from "That's It for
the Other One"
Most Famous Bus Called “Further”
• The novel tells the story of Ken
Kesey and his band of Merry
Pranksters. The book follows
the Pranksters across the
country driving in a psychedelic
painted school bus dubbed
"Furthur," reaching what they
considered to be personal and
collective revelations through
the use of LSD and other
psychedelic drugs. The novel
also describes the Acid Tests,
early performances by The
Grateful Dead, In 1968, Eliot
Fremont-Smith of "not simply
the best book on hippies...[but
also] the essential book.
Flower Power
• It is nothing new. We have a private
revolution going on. A revolution of
individuality and diversity that can only be
private. Upon becoming a group movement,
such a revolution ends up with imitators
rather than participants...It is essentially a
striving for realization of one's relationship
to life and other people...
– Bob Stubbs, "Unicorn Philosophy"
• "Do your own thing, wherever you have to
do it and whenever you want. Drop out.
Leave society as you have known it. Leave
it utterly. Blow the mind of every straight
person you can reach. Turn them on, if not
to drugs, then to beauty, love, honesty, fun.”
The Peace Sign
Was Everywhere!
Abbie Hoffman
Famous War Protester
Shown In Forrest Gump
Anti-Vietnam War
Dr. Timothy Leary UCB
Hippie Bus Rides Across The Nation
Most Famous Musical Festival In History
Haight & Ashbury (Counterculture Headquarters)