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1 Counterculture 11.8.8 EQ #6: What was the counterculture, and what impact did it have on American society?

2 Counterculture valued youth, spontaneity, peace, love and freedom
new ways of looking at sex, drugs, music and fashion 2/3 of people over 30 opposed premarital sex majority of people under 30 did not created a generation gap mom and dad could not understand the values of the hippies

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4 Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco that was hippie central
communal living, music, and political speeches radicals like Dr. Timothy Leary advocated drug use Harvard professor turned counterculture messiah “tune in, turn on, and drop out” (LSD) many sought spiritual enlightenment in eastern religions

5 The Beatles Invasion 70 million watched them on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 music became a form of cultural revolution the Beatles transformation from the clean cut early 60s to the later psychedelic 70s represented the time period

6 Woodstock, 1969 500,000 attended a four-day music festival in New York
minds were "open," drugs were used, and "love" was "free" the relative harmony was seen as proof of the movement Hells Angels killed a young man at a Rolling Stones concert in CA in 1969


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