The 60s - The Hippies - Union City High School

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Origins!
“The 60s” - The Hippie
Movement!
 
 
 
Early Hippie Movement!
 
 
Movement began in Berkley, California &
Greenwich Village, NYC!
Led by Allen Ginsburg & Timothy Leary...
emerged out of the University intelligencia!
 
Believed in Eastern teachings, sexual
liberation, vegetarianism, environmentalism,
communal living & use of psychedelic drugs!
 
Neighborhood in San Francisco, California!
 
Mecca for “The Hippie Movement”!
Promoted the use of LSD, Mushrooms,
Marijuana!
“Turn on (to drugs), Tune in (to music), Drop
out (of society)”!
Rejected establishment institutions, class
structure, nuclear weapons & modern war!
Haight-Ashbury District!
 
 
Embraced various teachings of: Gandhi, Hillel
the Elder, Buddha, Mazdak, St. Francis of
Assisi, Henry David Thoreau & Jesus Christ!
 
Many high school & college students
“dropped out” of society & moved to HaightAshbury!
The setting for the “Summer of Love”!
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Summer of Love!
 
Summer of 1967!
 
The Hippie “revolution”!
 
 
Took place in: San Francisco, NYC, LA, Philly,
Seattle, Portland, Washington DC, Chicago,
Canada & Europe!
Summer of psychedelic music, drug use,
sexual freedom, creative expression & ultraliberal politics!
Jerry Rubin!
Social/Political Leaders!
 
 
 
 
Jerry Rubin: Counterculture leader during 1960s &
1970s... Dropped out of UC-Berkeley in 1964 to focus
on social activism!
Abbie Hoffman: Leader of the Youth International
Party (Yippies)... leader of counterculture revolution
during 1960s & 1970s... Dropped out of UC-Berkeley
in early 1960s... helped organize Woodstock!
Allen Ginsberg: Antiwar & sexual liberation activist,
writer/poet & artist... leader of NYC “beat
generation”... leader of “San Francisco Renaissance”
& “Summer of Love”!
Timothy Leary: Psychologist & writer, experimented
with acid on students at UC-Berkeley... created “turn
on, tune in, drop out”... ran for Governor of California!
Abbie Hoffman!
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Allen Ginsberg!
Timothy Leary - “Come
Together right now over me”!
Musical Leaders!
Musical Leaders!
The Beatles: English Rock Band... part of “British
Invasion”... “Beatlemania” in America... transformed
“rock n roll” first mainstream group to turn to
psychedelic rock... led by John Lennon & Paul
McCartney!
The Grateful Dead: Formed 1965 in San Francisco,
CA... first “jam band” heavily relied in psychedelic
rock... followers known as “deadheads”... Led by
Jerry Garcia!
 
 
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Psychedelic Rock Band...
part of “British Invasion”... famous performances at
Woodstock & Monterey Pop Festival... Led by Jimi
Hendrix - originally from Seattle, Wash... also served
in US Army!
The Doors: American Psychedelic Rock Band... formed
in Los Angeles, CA... Led by Jim Morrison!
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The Beatles!
The Grateful Dead!
Jimi Hendrix!
The Doors!
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Music & The Hippies!
 
Monterey Pop Festival!
Monterey Pop Festival:!
 
June 16 - June 18, 1967!
 
Monterey, California!
 
 
 
Was considered the beginning of the “Summer of
Love”!
Performers included: Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis
Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, The
Mamas & The Papas, Ravi Shankar, Grateful Dead!
Influenced the organizers of Woodstock!
Jimi Hendrix @
Monterey!
Music & The Hippies!
 
Woodstock:!
 
August 15 - August 18, 1969!
 
Bethel, New York!
 
“An Aquarian Exposition: 3 days of Peace & Music”!
 
 
 
Audience was let in for free due to massive turn
out!
Mud People & Brown Acid!
Performers included: Santana, Grateful Dead,
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, The
Who, Jefferson Airplane, CSNY, Jimi Hendrix!
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Woodstock!
Jimi Hendrix @
Woodstock!
Music & The Hippies!
Isle of Wight Festival!
Isle of Wight Festival:!
 
End of August 1968, 1969, 1970!
 
Isle of Wight, England!
 
Performers included: Jefferson Airplane, Bob
Dylan, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Donovan,
Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell!
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Helter Skelter - The
End of “The Hippies”!
 
 
 
 
Charles Manson!
Helter Skelter - The Beatles !
Charles Manson: Hippie who Believed the song “Helter
Skelter” foreshadowed a war between races in
America... created a commune in California to prepare
for the Race War!
The Manson Family: Cult created by Manson in order
to begin the Race War within American society!
The Murders: Murdered 1 black man and over a dozen
white people while writing “Helter Skelter”, “Political
Piggy”, “Rise”, “Death to Pigs” & drawing Black
Panther paws in victims’ houses !
Hippie Songs!
 
The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds !
 
The Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station [Live]!
 
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze!
 
The Doors - The Crystal Ship!
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