Major anti-war rallies continued in the late 1960s and early 1970s

Oct. 15, 1969Vietnam Moratorium Day—college classes were cancelled so students could march and protest the war

Nov. 15, 1969Mobilization Day250,000 doves converge on Washington, D.C. to demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops from S. Vietnam

More protests continue in the 70s and pressure increases on President Nixon for withdrawal from Vietnam

Protests Continue

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What do you think the hippies were all about?

Mostly white middle-and upper-class youths◦ Baby boomers coming of age◦ Best educated generation in U.S.

historyhalf of young adults went to college

Rebelled against the dominant culture of the U.S.

Embraced a society that was freer and full of love and empathy

Communeshippies lived together and shared everything◦ Haight-Ashbury district in San

Francisco

The Counterculture

“Flower children” would put daisies in the rifle barrels of soldiers ordered to squash campus protests

SDS and Free Speech Movement organized massive college protests

1967—the “Summer of Love”hippies flocked to Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco to listen to music, take drugs and “be” with each other

The Beatles became the most popular band of the counter-culture

Rock became a weapon of cultural revolution Andy Warhol’s “real” art became influential

within the counter-culture The “sexual revolution” involved an increase

in premarital sex◦ The “pill” was newly developed◦ Women no longer feared getting pregnant and

rejected premarital abstinence

Music, Art, and Sex

Icon of 1960s counterculture

Proponent of LSD to expand spiritual and emotional benefits

“Turn on, tune in, drop out”

Bob Dylan taunted adults with lyrics, “Everybody must get stoned”

Dr. Timothy Leary

Celebration of counterculture music in New York

Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles were huge counterculture music stars

Woodstock (1969)

War songs have been sung since earliest history.

Do you think a war song such Joe McDonald’s would have been popular?

Do you think this song was more or less effective than other forms of protest against the war (public demonstrations, civil disobedience)?

Music and War

Deteriorated after a few years Impact was…

◦ “Make Love, Not War”◦ Fashion industrymore colorful and comfortable◦ Ethnic clothing◦ Longer hair on men◦ Pop art

Impact of the Counterculture

The 1960s and 1970s: The Decades of Protest and Change