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Origin of the word “hippie” by Harry Gibson’s song “Harry the Hipster”
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Introduced the “Beat Generation” to the U.S. (the term “beat” came from “tired” or “beaten down
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Ban-The-Bomb Protest / Anti-nuclear Activists coordinated a worldwide protest against nuclear weapons
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Stanley converted his amphetamines lab to an LSD lab and became one of the first millionaire drug dealers in the United States. His LSD product became a part of the “Red Dog Experience”, the early evolution of psychedelic rock and the budding hippie culture.
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Chandler A. Laughlin II, cofounder of Cabale Creamery Club in Berkeley, was greatly influenced by the Beat Generation and their beatnik culture. He followed their lead and established a tight family-like identity among 50 people in Greenwich Village in New York City and later Berkeley, California. Laughlin recruited many of the early psychedelic musical talent acts including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Iron Butterfly, The Charlatans, and others.
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The Feminine Mystique is published and Betty Friedan launches the modern feminist movement
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poet Allen Ginsberg created it as a way for the people to turn war into peace
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Michael Fallen starts a series of stories for the San Francisco Examiner, introducing the word “hippie” to readers
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San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district was the epicenter to the hippie movement
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California became the first state to make LSD illegal when they declared LSD a controlled substance
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The Human-Be-In event was held in Golden State Park in San Francisco and 30,000 hippies show up
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3 day music festival that embodied the theme of California as a focal point for the counterculture and is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967
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The Haight Ashbury scene had deteriorated dramatically. They couldn’t accommodate the influx of hundreds of thousands of hippies.
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Hippies marched peacefully at the pentagon for anti-war
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Rolling Stone magazine premiers with John Lennon on the cover out of San Francisco
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Hippies protest the Democratic Convention in Chicago to demonstrate against the Vietnam War
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Charles Mansion (former Haight-Ashbury resident) who the public identified as a drug crazed hippie, murdered Sharon Tate and her unborn baby
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Woodstock: Three Days of Peace, Music, and Love 500,000 people attend Woodstock Music & Art Fair in Bethel, New York and make history
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18 yr. old African American, Meredith Hunter, was stabbed and killed at the Altamont Free Concert during a performance by the Rolling Stones. The murder happened to be caught on the video footage of the Stone's documentary Gimme Shelter
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The first Earth Day took place in 1970. Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson got the idea to organize students and hold environmental teach-ins at schools across the country
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Hippie Movement began to wane form the events at the Altamont Free Concert and the overdose of hippie mega-stars like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison
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200 million people in more than 140 countries participated in events that focused on saving the rainforests, eliminating hazardous wastes, recycling and acid rain
