Counterculture of the 1960s

The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon. This happened in most parts of the United States and the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s."Where Have All the Rebels Gone?" Ep. 125 of Assignment America. Buffalo, NY: WNET. 1975. (Transcript available via American Archive of Public Broadcasting.) The movement became popular as the U.S. Civil Rights Movement continued to grow and the United States's involvement in the Vietnam War.Hirsch, Eric D. 1993. The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. Houghton Mifflin. . p. 419. "Members of a cultural protest that began in the U.S. in the 1960s and affected Europe before fading in the 1970s ... fundamentally a cultural rather than a political protest." 

During this time, there were social tensions about the change in human sexuality, women's rights, traditional modes of authority, rights of the non-white people, end of the racial segregation, experimentation with psychoactive drugs and what the American Dream meant. Many key movements related to these issues were born or grew from the counterculture of the 1960s."Counterculture." POLSC301. Saylor Academy.

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