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The 1960s Youth Counterculture
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The New Left

• Students for a Democratic Society

• Small group of student Activists who rejected
  communism and were inspired by the Civil Rights
  Movement for equality.
• Their banning by Universities helped spark the
  FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT

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The Hippies

• Young people dropped out of school and rejected
  Society and became known as Hippies
• They believed in Equality, Mind Expansion and
  Free Love

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Hippie Influence

• Clothing Style consisted of jeans, tie-dyed
  shirts, sandals and love beads
• Symbols consisted of peace signs and the peace
  sign made with the index and midde fingers.

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Timothy Leary

• American psychologist known for
  advocating psychedelic drug use. Leary and his
  associate were fired by Harvard University amid
  controversy surrounding such drugs.
• Leary believed LSD showed therapeutic potential
  for use in psychiatry. He popularized catch
  phrases that promoted his philosophy such as
  "turn on, tune in, drop out"

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Counter Culture Music

• Known as Psychedelic Rock it glamorized hippie
  ideologies and drug use.
• It started in the Haight Ashbury district of San
  Francisco led by bands such as Jefferson
  Airplane, Grateful Dead, Jimmie Hendrix and the
  Doors.

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WOODSTOCK

• 3 Days of Peace Music". It was held at Max
  Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York,
• During the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts
  performed outdoors before an audience of 400,000
  young people
• This event is regarded as the FINALE of the
  Hippie movement