1. Counterculture
-non-conformists =mostly white middleclass college youths who had grown disillusioned w/war & injustices in US in 1960s.
-”Tune in, turn on, drop out”
Timothy Leary
-hippies
-wanted to defy established authority.
rock music, radical appearance, drug use, communal living, eastern religions Buddhism
-counterculture turned violent and failed to cope with reality of surviving

2. Changing Culture -hippie generation left its cultural influence
-pop art
Andy Warhol Bright art of everyday life (Soup Cans, Marylyn Monroe)
-fashion trends *blue jeans, long hair
-rock music
Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix
British Invasion (Beatles)
form of protest
Woodstock, 1969 (Music & Art Fair)

4. Beatle Mania !
"Most pop culture figures become well-known, and then they stop growing," said Stark. "They keep doing what got them there. The Beatles constantly reinvent themselves. They don't want to keep doing the same thing even more than once, and in a way as they reinvent themselves, they reinvent all of their followers -- and we're talking hundreds of millions."

6. Changing Culture

7. Changing Culture
-rock music
British Invasion (Beatles)
form of protest
Woodstock, 1969
-sexual revolution “Do Anything” Generation– very open liberal attitudes: Birth Control Pill
-casual and permissive attitudes
-conservative backlash
to win back the revolutionary terrorism

8. Women’s Movement
-feminism
belief in equality with men
economic, political & social
-more women in the workforce
-Betty Freidan
“Feminine Mystique”, 1963
book called on women to examine their lives for true happiness
-sparked the women’s movement for millions
-Women’s Liberation
“Freedom Trashcans” :protest at the Miss Am. Pageant 1968

10. Women Fight for Rights
-NOW established
Nat’l Organization for Women
-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
-Gloria Steinem
Ms. Magazine
the major voice of the movement
-Roe v. Wade, 1973
made abortion legal up to 3 months
-ERA Equal Rights Amendment

11. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women. The ERA was originally written by Alice Paul and, in 1923, it was introduced in the Congress for the first time. In 1972, it passed both houses of Congress and went to the state legislatures for ratification.
The resolution in Congress that proposed the amendment set a ratification deadline of March 22, Through 1977, the amendment received 35 of the necessary 38 stateratifications. Five of those states later rescinded their ratifications before the 1979 deadline, though the validity of this is disputed. In 1978, a joint resolution of Congress extended the ratification deadline to June 30, 1982, but no further states ratified the amendment before the passing of the second deadline.

12. Latino Rights
-great increase in Latino populations in the 1960s, from 3 mill to 9 million
-many lived in segregated barrios –Spanish speaking neighborhoods
-faced discrimination and poverty when it came to jobs & housing
-Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers- better pay and treatment for Latinos
-fight for better education and political power

13. Native Americans
-US policy toward Indians had always been a failure
-American Indian Movement
wanted faster changes and reforms of Indian policy
protests of broken treaties
-Indian groups won back some tribal lands and have been given greater control over Indian affairs

14. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD): Psychedelic Drugs and the Counterculture

15. And now a look at The Beatles . . .  by the numbers.
All told, the Beatles have sold 1.6 BILLIONsingles in the United States, and 177 millionalbums.
Worldwide album sales top 600 million.
The number of Beatles singles to reach Number 1 on the "Billboard Hot 100" is 21, the most of any band.
Of their singles, "Hey, Jude" enjoyed the longest run on the charts -- 23 weeks in all.
The number of Beatles albums that reached Number 1 in the United States: 25.
The number of times "Yesterday" has been covered by other artists is over 3,000, making it the
most-covered song of all time.
The Beatles received 8 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Movie Score (for "Let It Be"),
and collectively they're included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th Century's 100 most influential people.
And for how long did The Beatles have nothing but love?  "Eight Days a Week.“
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