The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes
Massive black rebellions, constant strikes, gigantic anti-war demonstrations,
draft resistance, Cuba, Vietnam, Algeria, a cultural revolution of seven hundred
million Chinese, occupations, red power, the rising of women, disobedience and
sabotage, communes & marijuana: amongst this chaos, there was a generation of
youths looking to set their own standard - to fight against the establishment,
which was oppressing them, and leave their mark on history. These kids were
known as the hippies. There were many stereotypes concerning hippies; they were
thought of as being pot smoking, freeloading vagabonds, who were trying to save
the world. As this small pocket of teenage rebellion rose out of ...
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from the fifties to the sixties, the Black Panther Party, women
moving into the work force, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and
John F. Kennedy Jr., the war in Vietnam, the Kent State protest, and finally the
Woodstock festival.
The electric subcurrent of the fifties was, above all, rock'n'roll, the live
wire that linked bedazzled teenagers around the nation, and quickly around the
world, into the common enterprise of being young. Rock was rough, raw, insistent,
especially by comparison with the music it replaced; it whooped and groaned,
shook, rattled, and rolled. Rock was clamor, the noise of youth submerged by
order and prosperity, now frantically clawing their way out.
The winds of change began to sweep across America in the late fifties. The
political unrest came with fear of thermo-nuclear war and the shadow that had
been cast by Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. The civil rights leaders were unhappy with
President Eisenhower's reluctance to use his powers for their ...
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of the work force. Fewer workers went into traditional fields such
as manufacturing, agriculture, and mining, and more went into clerical,
managerial, professional, and service fields. In 1956, for the first time in the
nation's history, white collar workers outnumbered blue collar ones, "and by
the end of the decade blue collar workers constituted only 45 percent of the
work force." The sexual composition of the work force also changed as more and
more women entered the labor market. The influx of women into the work world
that had been accelerated by the Second World War continued in the postwar
period.
The political groups, and the negative feelings that they harbored towards ...
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