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1960’s America Peace, Love and Happiness
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Counterculture Movement: Values Youth, Freedom of Expression Fueled by the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement
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Hippies *Protested against the conformity of the 1950’s and tried to start a society based on peace, love and harmony
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Haight and Ashbury- Neighborhood in San Francisco where a lot of the Counterculture beliefs and Music originated!
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Grateful Dead Jimi Hendrix
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Bob Dylan
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Janis Joplin
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Woodstock! August 1969
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400-500 thousand people 3 deaths 2 births
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QuillQuill, - forty-minute set of four songs Country Joe McDonald John Sebastian Santana Keef Hartley Band The Incredible String Band Canned Heat Mountain Grateful Dead Creedence Clearwater Revival Janis Joplin Sly & the Family Stone The Who - began at 4 a.m. - 25-song set Jefferson Airplane Richie Havens Swami SatchidanandaSwami Satchidananda Sweetwater Bert Sommer Ravi Shankar Tim Hardin Melanie Arlo Guthrie Joan Baez The Grease Band Joe Cocker Country Joe and the Fish Ten Years After The Band Blood, Sweat & Tears Johnny Winter Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Paul Butterfield Blues Band Sha-Na-Na Jimi Hendrix Day 1Day 2 Day 3
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Rolling Stones Concert - 1969 Free Concert held in San Francisco 300,000 attendees Hell’s Angels hired as “security” 4 deaths
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1960/70’s Power Movements
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Black Power Shift away from assimilation and towards racial pride Black Panthers – 66’ Malcolm X (Little) 68 Olympics
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Red Power Response from 50s “termination” Policy –Govt ended recognition of tribal autonomy –Push for assimilation JFK ends policy Creation of A.I.M – 68’ –American Indian Movement –“Trail of Broken Treaties” 71’ –Seizure of Bureau of I.A 72’ –Wounded Knee Standoff 73’ Alcatraz Takeover
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Brown Power Latino C.R. Movement Population increasing –Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban Gained political power in areas across the country Cesar Chavez –United Farm Workers
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Hispanic Population Increase
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Rainbow PowerRainbow Power Gay Liberation Movement –Political and Economic Rights –Social Acceptance 1968 - Stonewall Riot Gradually results in laws limiting discrimination based on sexual preference
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Pink Power Feminist Movement –Focus on sexual discrimination Feminine Mystique – 63’ –Betty Freidan Equal Pay Act – 63’ Title VII – 64’ –Amendment to CR Act of 64 NOW – 66’
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1963- Betty Friedan wrote the Feminine Mystique Her interviews of women found housewives were very unhappy... Needed more- Leads to Sexual Revolution
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Women’s Liberation Movement Title IX – 71’ –Women's Sports Failure of the E.R.A – 72’ –Again Birth Control Pill – 58’ –Griswold v. Conn. – 65’ Roe v. Wade – 73’
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Green Power Environmental Movement Ecology –Study of relationship b/w organisms and their surroundings Silent Spring – 62’ –Rachel Carson Environmental Organizations Green Peace – 69’ Earth Day – 70’ Env. Protection Agency – 70’ Clean Air Act – 70’ Clean Water Act – 72’
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Environmental Movement 1 st Earth Day: 1970
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