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The Human Be-In took its name from a chance remark by the artist Michael Bowen made at the Love Pageant Rally. [6] The playful name combined humanist values with the scores of sit-ins that had been reforming college and university practices and eroding the vestiges of entrenched segregation, starting with the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee.
While many hippies made a long-term commitment to the lifestyle, some younger people argue that hippies "sold out" during the 1980s and became part of the materialist, consumer culture. [65] Hippies who did not "sell out" have been featured in the press as recently as April 2014.
English: August 25, 1968, Hippies in Lincoln Park, Chicago. MC5 is seen playing. The John Hancock building and the Chicago Police. Date: 18 June 2016: Source: Own work:
May 8: Attempting to "rescue" his child from what he believes to be a hippie commune, a father, Arville Garland, murders his daughter Sandra and three others in their sleep in Detroit. The events are eerily similar to those depicted in the hippie-bashing film Joe, which was filmed prior to – but released after – the murders. [563] [564]
The Plumas County Sheriff's Office is warning attendees to the upcoming Rainbow Family Gathering that there will be a 'zero-tolerance policy toward any illegal activities or behaviors.'
Although Chicago authorities and the media had anticipated 100,000 anti-war protesters to converge on Chicago during the week of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, [2] an estimated 9,000 to 10,000 protesters arrived in the city on August 22–23 to participate in the demonstrations.
According to Malcolm X's 1964 autobiography, the word hippie in 1940s Harlem had been used to describe a specific type of white man who "acted more Negro than Negroes". [23] Andrew Loog Oldham refers to "all the Chicago hippies," seemingly about black blues/R&B musicians, in his rear sleeve notes to the 1965 LP The Rolling Stones, Now!
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