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The Hippie Movement: A Cultural Phenomenon
A plain-language introduction to the hippies: their roots in the Beat scene and the Bay Area, shared values, dress and drugs, and a timeline from 1965 to the early 1970s.
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The Hippie Movement
Who the hippies were, what they believed and what they left behind.
The Hippie Movement in San Francisco: A Cultural Revolution
The San Francisco hippie scene beyond the Haight: ballrooms, Berkeley, North Beach and Marin, ending with the Death of Hippie mock funeral on 6 October 1967.
The Hippie Movement in the Community: A Year of Service and Activism
How the Haight coped in 1967: Digger free food in the Panhandle, the Free Medical Clinic of June 1967, crash pads and the Haight Ashbury Switchboard.
The Hippie Movement: A Countercultural Revolution
How the 1960s counterculture divided into psychedelic and political wings, and the role of Timothy Leary and his January 1967 call to turn on, tune in, drop out.
The Hippie Movement: A Cultural and Historical Perspective
A historian's view of the hippies' lineage: Romantic and Transcendentalist ideas, the Beats of the 1950s, the folk revival and Ken Kesey's Acid Tests as predecessors.
The Hippie Movement: A Cultural and Social Phenomenon
A look at hippie communes and shared households: Drop City, Morning Star Ranch, the Hog Farm and The Farm in Tennessee, and how long each of them lasted.
The Hippie Movement: A Cultural Phenomenon of 1967
How hippies became a national story in 1967, from Time magazine's essay of 7 July to television reports, and how media coverage drew thousands more to San Francisco.
The Hippie Movement: A Year of Free Love and Peace
The peace side of the hippie movement: the flower power slogan from Allen Ginsberg in 1965, flowers in rifle barrels at the October 1967 Pentagon march, and the nonviolence debate.
The Rise of the Hippie Movement: 1967 and Beyond
What happened to the hippies after 1967: the Death of Hippie ceremony, Woodstock, Altamont and the Manson murders of 1969, and absorption into 1970s mainstream life.
The Rise of the Hippie Subculture: A 1967 Perspective
The vocabulary and look of the hippie subculture: groovy, far out and turn on, beads, bell-bottoms and tie-dye, and how they spread from the Haight to stores in 1967.
The Role of the 'Hippie' Movement in Shaping American Culture
The hippies' long-term cultural imprint: natural foods, yoga and Eastern religion, informal dress, and lasting changes to popular music and everyday manners.
The Role of the 'Hippie' Movement in Shaping American Society
How hippies affected institutions and attitudes beyond culture: authority, family life, sexual mores, and the backlash seen in 1968 Nixon and Wallace voters and Reagan's campaigns.
The Role of the 'Hippie' Movement in Shaping Social Justice
Where hippies overlapped with civil rights, antiwar and early environmental causes, and where critics, including Black activists, saw them as detached from social justice work.
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