• Where did it come from?
– US ready for change
• Students in college
• Music/Movies challenging values
– Civil Rights Movement
• What issues disturbed these students?
– Problems in US (poverty, inequality, racism,
greed, etc.)
– Personal Freedoms – free speech,
restrictions @ colleges
– Vietnam War
• What actions did they take?
– Challenged restrictions on
hours when women & men
could visit each other in dorms
– Became more involved in
college affairs & decision
making
– SDS – Students for a
Democratic Society – org.
worked for radical changes,
protests, etc.
• New Left – believed only radical
changes could solve problems
• Weather Underground – believed
peaceful protests ineffective,
bombed NYC Police HQ, NY Bank,
Helped Timothy Leary escape from
prison
• What actions were taken?
– The Free Speech Movement
(1964)
• U. of CA at Berkeley – refused to
allow students to hand out
leaflets, police come for leader
• Surround police car, admin. files
charges, students take over
Sproul Hall (main admin.
building), students arrested,
others support by going on
strike
– The Teach-in Movement
• Extended lecture and discussion
on a controversial issue, obj. is
to inform of what was going on
• 1st in 1965, increase in #s as war
goes on
• Why did people begin to
question the draft?
– Morality – against the war,
being forced to kill
– Fairness – college exemptions,
burden fell to the poor
• What actions were taken to
avoid/protest the draft?
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Burning draft cards
Failure to register
Moving to Canada
Trying to fail physical
Claim to be conscientious
objector
• What actions were taken to
protest the Vietnam War?
– Protests/Attacks on
campuses: ROTC, CIA, etc.
– Demonstrations
• 100,000 @ the Pentagon
(1967)
• Over 200 on college
campuses in 1968
• 500,000 in DC (1969) Moratorium
– Militant Protests – provoked
confrontations
• Weathermen, Dem. National
Convention in Chicago
• Values & Beliefs
Imagine no possessions
“I like ideas about the breaking away or
– Anti-conformity
I wonder
if you can
overthrowing of established order. I am
No need
for greed or
• Rejection
of hunger
conventional interested in anything about revolt,
A brotherhood of man
disorder, chaos, especially activity that
norms (relationships,
Imagine all the people
seems to have no meaning. It seems to
living
patterns,
etc)
sharing all the world.
me to be the road towards freedom Rebelling
values external freedom is a way to bring about
~•John
Lennonagainst
(Imagine)
internal freedom.”
~ Jim Morrison
of parents’ generation
– Freedom,
Individuality,
“Hippie”
– Core of Hippie
Philosophy
Experimentation
To be a &
hippie
you must believe in peace
as the way
resolve
differences
• to
Drugs,
Sex,
Music among
peoples, ideologies and religions. The
way to peace is through love and
tolerance. Loving means accepting
others as they are, giving them freedom
to express themselves and not judging
them based on appearances.
Dr. Timothy Leary –
advocated use of LSD
– fired as professor
• Practices
– Clothing/Appearance
• longer hair, beards, home-made
clothing, loose-fitting dresses
– Living
• Lived together as couples w/o
getting married, lived as groups in
“communes”
How
do you think the older generation viewed
• Sex – Open about discussing it,
those
young
people
involved in the counterculture?
engaging
in it,
“Free Love”
How
is this
similar to
the
way the older generation
• Drugs
– widespread
use
and
experimentation
with today?
drugs [pot,
views
young people
hallucinogens (LSD) – altered
perception of reality, brain
functions abnormally]
– Music
• new forms of rock, open to
experimentation in styles, structure
of songs
• Events
– Woodstock (August 1969)
• Music festival, 300,000
attended, upstate NY, troublefree weekend
• Some artists there – Dylan,
Hendrix, others
– Altamont (December 1969)
• Speedway in CA, Rolling
Stone’s concert, not enough
security, 300,000 attend
• Band hires Hell’s Angels
(motorcycle gang) for extra
security– violence broke out,
1 concertgoer killed
• Music reflected & contributed to
cultural change
• Overdoses & Deaths
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"The Times They Are A-Changin'" (Bob Dylan)
“War” (Edwin Starr)
“Give Peace A Chance” (John Lennon)
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (The Beatles)
“Are You Experienced?” (Jimi Hendrix)
“Share the Land” (The Guess Who)
“Rainy Day Woman” (Bob Dylan)
“A Day in the Life” (The Beatles)