HIST 1150 Chapter : The Sixties
11 Dec 2011
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There was a no more exciting time to be young than the 60s; specifically 1968. So many people were in their early twenties that the whole world seemed young. Societies were beginning to accept that it was possible to be equal and different at the same time. The drug revolt groups became prominent. devastated a lot of lives. Hippies [probably derived from the hipster" of the jazz culture] were young people that dropped out of the conventional society and wondered the world in search of enlightenment. Hippies were associated with drugs and produced many spectacular events: the summer of love took place in 1967 in san francisco, it was a mix of music, drugs, sex, and politics. Woodstock hosted an aquarian exposition that was 3 days of peach and music in new york state in 1969. Slogans of flower power" and make love not war" challenged all authority including the roman catholic church.
