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