Hippie Movement Mr. Gordon’s World History. “What’s in store for me in the direction that I do...

Hippie MovementMr. Gordon’s World History

• “What’s in store for me in the direction that I do not take?” –Jack Kerouac

Key Terms• 1960s Movement• Born in California

– San Francisco• Haight & Ashbury Streets

• Counterculture Values– Free Love, Folk Music,

Environment, Communal life, Recreational Drugs

• Psychedelic Drugs– LSD, hash, pscilocybin

• Acid Tests (Parties)

• Events– 1964 Further Road Trip

– 1967 Summer of Love

– 1969 Woodstock– 197Project MKULTRA

• Famous People– Ken Kesey, Abbie Hoffman,

Tim Leary, Alan Ginsburg

– Flower Children, Merry Pranksters

• Theme: "tune in, turn on, and drop out“

• Underground newspapers

• Flower Power

Escapin' through the lily fieldsI came across an empty spaceIt trembled and explodedLeft a bus stop in its placeThe bus came by and I got onThat's when it all beganThere was cowboy NealAt the wheelOf a bus to never-ever land- Grateful Dead, lyrics from "That's It for the Other One"

The Grateful DeadWas The People’s Band

Most Famous Bus Called “Further”

• The novel tells the story of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. The book follows the Pranksters across the country driving in a psychedelic painted school bus dubbed "Furthur," reaching what they considered to be personal and collective revelations through the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs. The novel also describes the Acid Tests, early performances by The Grateful Dead, In 1968, Eliot Fremont-Smith of "not simply the best book on hippies...[but also] the essential book.

Flower Power

• It is nothing new. We have a private revolution going on. A revolution of individuality and diversity that can only be private. Upon becoming a group movement, such a revolution ends up with imitators rather than participants...It is essentially a striving for realization of one's relationship to life and other people...– Bob Stubbs, "Unicorn Philosophy"

• "Do your own thing, wherever you have to do it and whenever you want. Drop out. Leave society as you have known it. Leave it utterly. Blow the mind of every straight person you can reach. Turn them on, if not to drugs, then to beauty, love, honesty, fun.”

The Peace Sign Was Everywhere!

Abbie Hoffman

Famous War ProtesterShown In Forrest Gump

Anti-Vietnam War

Dr. Timothy Leary UCB

Hippie Bus Rides Across The Nation

Most Famous Musical Festival In History

Haight & Ashbury (Counterculture Headquarters)