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The tradition of hippie festivals began in the United States in 1965 with Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, where the Grateful Dead played under the influence of LSD and initiated psychedelic jamming. For the next several decades, many hippies and neo-hippies became part of the Deadhead and Phish Head communities, attending music and art festivals held ...
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.
A hippie, also spelled hippy, [1] especially in British English, [2] is someone associated with the counterculture of the mid-1960s to early 1970s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States and spread to different countries around the world. [3]
A G.I. Joe comic showing a classic example of an antiwar hippie spitting on a returning Vietnam vet.. There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967.As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park.
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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.'
The hippies tended to interact more with the local population than traditional sightseers did. [1] The hippie trail largely ended in the late 1970s primarily due to both the Iranian Revolution resulting in an anti-Western government, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, closing the route to Western travelers. [4] [5] [1] [6]