Countercultures of the 1960’s

Students, Hippies and Freaks

Students

• Protesting – Civil Rights– SNCC

– Vietnam – Columbia, Kent, Jackson– Cambodia, My Lai, Pentagon Papers

– Individual Rights – Campus Restrictions

Student Movements• Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)– Formed “New Left”- represent liberal opinion

in U.S.– Led by Tom Hayden (U of M)– Issued Port Huron Statement

• Wanted University decisions made by participatory democracy. Students want a voice

– Radical fringe, Weathermen, use violence• Free Speech Movement – Berkeley campus protest 1964– Mario Savio

Vietnam War

• Either– American imperialism or– A Civil War that we should be left to that country

Counterculture: Hippie Movement• Reject

– Conformity of the 50’s– Materialism

• Rebel in different ways– Rock n Roll (Beatles, Rolling Stones)– Folk Music (Bob Dylan)– Long Hair– Dress– Drug use– Free living– Communes

• Timothy Leary– Father of LSD– “Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

• Sexual Revolution

• Woodstock (1969)– Upstate NY– Police avoid

confrontation