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The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...
In the 1960s, the Dada-influenced art group Black Mask declared that revolutionary art should be "an integral part of life, as in primitive society, and not an appendage to wealth." [160] Black Mask disrupted cultural events in New York by giving made up flyers of art events to the homeless with the lure of free drinks. [161]
The publication satirizes both mainstream American culture and, later, counterculture alike. [3] [4] Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison's highly acclaimed novel of African-American life in the 20th century is published. [5] Go: John Clellon Holmes' novel is published and is later considered to be the first book depicting the Beat Generation. [6]
In Africa the 1960s was a period of radical political change as 32 countries gained independence from their European colonial rulers. Some commentators have seen in this era a classical Jungian nightmare cycle, where a rigid culture, unable to contain the demands for greater individual freedom , broke free of the social constraints of the ...
The 1960s were marked by street protests, demonstrations, rioting, civil unrest, [22] antiwar protests, and a cultural revolution. [23] African American youth protested following victories in the courts regarding civil rights with street protests led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , James Bevel , and the NAACP . [ 24 ]
The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom and the United States and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s, with London, New York City, and San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity.
The British counter-culture or underground scene developed during the mid-1960s, [1] and was linked to the hippie subculture of the United States. Its primary focus was around Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill in London .
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