Hippie Culture and Protests
Hippie Culture
During the 1960s the US was home to a never before seen counter-culture. Hippies were teens and young adults who adopted the Flower Power movement in protest of more conservative older adults, their parents. Originally taken from the term Hipster, hippies were beatniks who found their tecnicolor heart in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Their vocal opposition to America's involvement in Vietnam changed what we think of Activism. This movement quickly spread across the country as young people burned their draft cards, left for Canada or entered college in higher numbers to avoid being drafted.
Using free love and peace, Hippies would gather using music as their method to communicate protesting the Vietnam War. One concert which was a turning point in the culture of the US was known as Woodstock held in August of 1969. 500,000 people gathered to listen to musicians and poets talk about peace and protest the Vietnam War.
The hippies also put flowers in the military's guns to symbolize peace at some of the protests.
Using free love and peace, Hippies would gather using music as their method to communicate protesting the Vietnam War. One concert which was a turning point in the culture of the US was known as Woodstock held in August of 1969. 500,000 people gathered to listen to musicians and poets talk about peace and protest the Vietnam War.
The hippies also put flowers in the military's guns to symbolize peace at some of the protests.
Protests
There were many Protests but the two that stood out the most to me were, the March on the Pentagon and, Kent State. On October 21 1967 100,000 people walked up to the pentagon and started forming a big mob in front of the entrances. When Dr. Benjamin Spock called Nixon "the enemy" a whole bunch of people raised the Vietnam National Flag and started storming the doors. This is when the protests turned violent. Some of the protestors clashed with U.S Marshals protecting the Pentagon.
Kent State was provoked when Nixon went on live TV to say that they needed to draft 150,000 more people to the war. This caused a massive uprising in some collages and a lot more high schools. The next day (May 4th 1970) people gathered at Kent State College for a demonstration. during this protest they ended up setting the ROTC building on fire. Nixon decided it would be smart to send over 900 National Guardsmen to fix the problem. They open fired on the crowd killing 4 and wounding 9 students.
Kent State was provoked when Nixon went on live TV to say that they needed to draft 150,000 more people to the war. This caused a massive uprising in some collages and a lot more high schools. The next day (May 4th 1970) people gathered at Kent State College for a demonstration. during this protest they ended up setting the ROTC building on fire. Nixon decided it would be smart to send over 900 National Guardsmen to fix the problem. They open fired on the crowd killing 4 and wounding 9 students.
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