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Hippie Movement and Woodstock

The Hippie Generation • Era from 1960 -1970 • Hippie is derived from “Hipster” – Used to describe beatniks who moved to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury commune for the Summer of Love in 1967

The Hippies • Most were White teenagers from wealthy middle class families • Rejected politics, embraced & Eastern Religions • Recreational Drug Users

• Relied Heavily on use of Rock & Roll – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – Purple Haze • Summer of 1967

The Hippie Movement • “Tune in, Turn on, and Drop out”. Tune into your spirituality, Turn on with Drugs, and Drop out of school • “Make Love, Not War”

• Held Protests – The Weathermen • Influenced the beginning of other movements, i. e. , Black Panther’s, Women’s Movement & Latino Movement

Woodstock http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=St. Fhv. AIv 3 Js

Woodstock 1. Woodstock is the name of the town that the concert was originally suppose to be held in. 2. Organizers were kicked out of the original venue, so a farmer named Max offered his 600 acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York for $75, 000. 3. Organizers pre-sold 186, 000 tickets at $6 a day and then told Bethel authorities they were expecting 50, 000 people. 4. Five inches of rain in just three hours on the first day made the other three days a mudfest!

5. 32 performers put on one of the biggest rock shows of all time in front of 500, 000 fans. 6. An estimated one million people were turned back because of a nine mile traffic jam. 7. Nine out of ten concert goers smoked Marijuana. 8. 2 babies were born, three people were killed, one from heroin overdose, one from ruptured appendix and the last one accidentally got run over by a tractor. 9. Jimi Hendrix ended the weekend on Monday, August 18 th in the morning at 9: 00 am with his impromtue rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.

Works Cited • • • Hippie generation Adam Huber, Chris Lemieux, Marlon Hollis http: //users. rowan. edu/~lindman/hippieintro. html Hippie Culture-1968 - The History Channel http: //www. history. com/states. do? action=detail&state=Hippies&content. Type=State_G eneric&content. Id=56743&parent. Id=1968 Pic_ hippie chicks The Hippie Era 1969 84 http: //hubpages. com/hub/The-Hippie-Era-1969 Pic- vietnam protest redhatrob. wordpress. com; http: //redhatrob. files. wordpress. com/2007/09/vietnam_protest_rs. jpg Pic- the hell-icopters http: //upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/d/d 3/Vietnam_War_Protest_in_DC, _1 967. gif http: //www. ehow. com/about_5375320_history-hippie-movement. html History of Hippie Movement Bethney Foster

Works Cited • • http: //oldhippie. jimgreenlee. com/hiphistory. html Hippie History Youtube- the history of the woodstock festival http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=St. Fhv. AIv 3 Js