PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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Formed student groups that attempted to change the ways universities treated faculty and students.
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Found the protesting, dissatisfied ways of the younger generation to be disrespectful.
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Dodged the draft
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Formed Communes
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Protested the war, treatment of minority groups, and women.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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 counterculture movement was the result of a generation that rejected social norms and traditional ways of previous decades. A new identity was born at the start of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. This youth movement criticized consumerism, promoted peace, and yearned for individualism.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.