Counter Culture

• Counter-culture

  • Feminists
  • Those who opposed the Vietnam War
  • The Black Panthers
  • The Hippies
• Hippies

  • Alternative Lifestyle
  • Beats Generation
  • Spontaneously, drugs, free love and general defiance of authority and convention
• Hippies


  • Rejected American society's emphasis on individualism, competitiveness and materialism
  • Preferred communal living and harmony
• Hippie movement in the mid 1960's

  1. A group of alienated young people moved to San Francisco Haight-Ashbury area

  2. Wearing 'alternative clothes' such as Indian Kaftans

  3. Attending 'happenings'

  4. Smoking and selling cannabis

  5. Adopting new names

  6. Growing their hair
• 100,000 hippies visited the Haight-Ashbury area, which became a centre of a bohemian lifestyle and was re-christened 'Hashbury' because of the popularity of hash
• The 'Human Be-in' in Golden Gate Park, where thousands of young people met to celebrate personal freedom, communal living and environmentalism. Allen Ginsberg and Dr Timothy Leary were among those attending


  January
• The 'Summer of Love' attracted tens of thousands of followers of the counterculture from all over America. Time magazine noted that every major city had 'hippie enclaves' and estimated that there might be around 300,000 hippies


  Summer