USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -While conformity and social conservatism characterized the 1950s, there were, nevertheless, counter-culture movements. The most significant of these was the beat movement, lead by a group of writers collectively known as the Beat Generation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Counterculture began to boil up in the late 1940s and seeped into the 1950s with the beat movement. This movement involved literary “hipsters” who rejected social norms, often referred to as beatniks. The beat movement was the foundation of the counterculture movement that emerged in the late 1960s.

Detailed explanation-3: -Unconventional or psychedelic dress; political activism; public protests; campus uprisings; pacifist then loud, defiant music; drugs; communitarian experiments, and sexual liberation were hallmarks of the sixties counterculture-most of whose members were young, white and middle-class.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 1960s to mid-1970s counterculture generation was an era of change in identity, family unit, sexuality, dress, and the arts. It was a time when youth rejected social norms and exhibited their disapproval of racial, ethnic, and political injustices through resistance, and for some subgroups, revolt.