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Hippie Counterculture Research Paper

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Dennis Alfian
Mr.Brown
English 11B/Per.3
19 March 2015
Hippies counterculture The 1960’s was a period of containment and prejudice. Groups of people emerged as the country’s voice of peace towards the inequality and war going on at the time. The hippie group is the biggest change in society that was formulated to combat the Vietnam war at the time, and war through counterculture. The hippie movement started in the district of Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco. They are made up of mostly younger generation, from 16-26. In the year of 1965, a San Francisco reporter custom the term "hippie" to describe the unaccustomed,friendly of American disobedient- they were passionate, natural, and free. The hippies are very proud people and are very carefree about life. They were the few that promoted anti-racism of African Americans. Musical events, such as Woodstock, brought hippies from all over the country. They had also brought the event called the Baby Boomer, from 1946-1964, that made up almost 45 percent of the nation’s population. Drugs were also introduced and is used as an instrument of …show more content…

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