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  2. History of the hippie movement - Wikipedia

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    These hippies created the largest number of intentional communities or communes in the history of the United States, forming alternative, egalitarian farms and homesteads in Northern California, Colorado, New Mexico, New York, Tennessee and other states. According to Timothy Miller, communes were organized in many different ways, some along ...

  3. Central Park be-ins - Wikipedia

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    In the 1960s, several "be-ins" were held in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City to protest against various issues such as U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and racism. Background [ edit ]

  4. Human Be-In - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The idea of the Human Be-In was born of a fear that the movement would be erased due to tensions between factions of the Hippie movement. [citation needed] Bowen writes "The anti-war and free speech movement in Berkeley thought the Hippies were too disengaged and spaced out. Their influence might draw the young away from ...

  5. 1967 March on the Pentagon - Wikipedia

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    On October 21, 1967 the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam started the protest with a rally at the Lincoln Memorial.The attendees were socially diverse ranging from middle class professionals, clergymen, hippies, and black activists. [5]

  6. Sunset Strip curfew riots - Wikipedia

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    By the mid-1960s, The Sunset Strip had become a place dominated by young members of the hippie and rock and roll counterculture.. At the behest of business owners and residents, in 1966 the Los Angeles City Council imposed nightly curfews intended to curtail the growing "nuisance" of hippie antiwar protests. [3]

  7. Summer of Love - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. How Columbia University's complex history with the student ...

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    Those events, like the current protest, “sparked a huge increase in student activism around the country,” Mark Rudd, a leader of that protest, said in an email to The Associated Press.

  9. Hippie - Wikipedia

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    Hippie and psychedelic culture influenced 1960s and early 1970s youth culture in Iron Curtain countries in Eastern Europe (see Mánička). [15] Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, mainstream society has assimilated many aspects of hippie ...