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1 Hippie Movement Mr. Gordon’s World History

2 “What’s in store for me in the direction that I do not take?” –Jack Kerouac

3 Key Terms 1960s Movement Born in California –San Francisco Haight & Ashbury Streets Counterculture Values –Free Love, Folk Music, Environment, Communal life, Recreational Drugs Psychedelic Drugs –LSD, hash, pscilocybin Acid Tests (Parties) Events –1964 Further Road Trip –1967 Summer of Love –1969 Woodstock –197Project MKULTRA Famous People –Ken Kesey, Abbie Hoffman, Tim Leary, Alan Ginsburg –Flower Children, Merry Pranksters Theme: "tune in, turn on, and drop out“ Underground newspapers Flower Power

4 Escapin' through the lily fields I came across an empty space It trembled and exploded Left a bus stop in its place The bus came by and I got on That's when it all began There was cowboy Neal At the wheel Of a bus to never-ever land - Grateful Dead, lyrics from "That's It for the Other One" The Grateful Dead Was The People’s Band

5 Most Famous Bus Called “Further”

6 The novel tells the story of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. The book follows the Pranksters across the country driving in a psychedelic painted school bus dubbed "Furthur," reaching what they considered to be personal and collective revelations through the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs. The novel also describes the Acid Tests, early performances by The Grateful Dead, In 1968, Eliot Fremont-Smith of "not simply the best book on hippies...[but also] the essential book.

7 Flower Power

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9 It is nothing new. We have a private revolution going on. A revolution of individuality and diversity that can only be private. Upon becoming a group movement, such a revolution ends up with imitators rather than participants...It is essentially a striving for realization of one's relationship to life and other people... –Bob Stubbs, "Unicorn Philosophy"

10 "Do your own thing, wherever you have to do it and whenever you want. Drop out. Leave society as you have known it. Leave it utterly. Blow the mind of every straight person you can reach. Turn them on, if not to drugs, then to beauty, love, honesty, fun.”

11 The Peace Sign Was Everywhere!

12 Abbie Hoffman Famous War Protester Shown In Forrest Gump Anti-Vietnam War

13 Dr. Timothy Leary UCB

14 Hippie Bus Rides Across The Nation

15 Most Famous Musical Festival In History

16 Haight & Ashbury (Counterculture Headquarters)


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