Hippie

Hippies 60s

By georgiacleasby

  • Drugs

    Drugs
    During the 1960s, drugs like marijuana, amphetamines, and psychedelics came on the scene, and a new generation embraced drugs

  • Boston Sane

    Boston Sane
    Boston SANE & fledgling SDS hold first anti-nuclear march on Washington with 4000-8000 protesters

  • Birminghan Campaign

    Birminghan Campaign
    Martin Luther King & Ralph Abernathy go to jail in Birmingham

  • Yesterday by The Beatles

    Yesterday by The Beatles

  • SF Cutlture

    SF Cutlture
    San Francisco writer Michael Fallon applies the term "hippie" to the SF culture in an article about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse where LEMAR...Legalize Marijuana.. & the Sexual Freedom League meet, & hippie houses.

  • Love Pageant Rally

    Love Pageant Rally
    On this day, the state of California made LSD a controlled substance, making the drug illegal. After this happened, the Hippies held an event called the "Love Pageant Rally" to discuss this. Around 700-800 people showed up to this event. the purpose of the rally was to draw attention to the fact that LSD had just been made illegal, and to demonstrate that people who used LSD were not criminals, and they were also mentally ill.

  • Classic Culture

    Classic Culture
    A 1967 article in Time Magazine asserted that the hippie movement has a historical part in the counterculture of the Ancient Greeks, espoused by philosophers like Diogenes of Sinope and the Cynics. The article claims that the Hippies were influenced by the ideas of Jesus Christ, Hillel the Elder, Buddha, St. Francis of Assisi, Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and others.

  • Diggers

    Diggers
    Hippie action in the Haight was basically on the Diggers, a guerrilla street theatre group that combined crazy street theatre, anarchistic action, and art happenings in their agenda to create a "free city." By 1966, the Diggers opened stores which gave away their stock; provided free food, medical care, transport and temporary housing. They organized free music concerts and works of political art. The Diggers criticized the term 'hippie'. They were not very fond of Hippies.

  • Woodstock

    Woodstock
    The Woodstock Music and Art Festival took place in Bethel, New York. Over 500,000 people came to this event. This was basically a concert for hippies.

  • Altamont

    Altamont
    This was similar to Woodstock. This event was best known for violence. The death of Meredith Hunter and three accidental deaths happened at Altamont.