PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
HIPPIES AND THE COUNTERCULTURE
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Increasing prosperity of the 1950’s
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Consumerism and conformity of the 1950’s
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Anxiety over Cold War fears
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Conservative dominance in politics
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Vietnam War, and the protracted national divide between supporters and opponents of the war, were arguably the most important factors contributing to the rise of the larger counterculture movement.
Detailed explanation-2: -Unconventional appearance, music, drugs, communitarian experiments, and sexual liberation were hallmarks of the sixties counterculture, most of whose members were white, middle-class young Americans.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The hippie counterculture, which emerged in the late 1960s and grew to include hundreds of thousands of young Americans across the country, reached its height during this period of escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War, and subsided as that conflict drew to a close.