Counterculture
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A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior are opposed to those of the current mainstream society, and sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores. A countercult
An anti-Vietnam War protestor offering a flower to military police in Arlington, Virginia, in 1967
Abbie Hoffman, leader of the countercultural protest group the Yippies
Members of the military police keep back anti-Vietnam War protestors during their sit-in at the Pentagon in 1967
1971 edition of the Australian underground press magazine Oz
Counterculture of the 1960s
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The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s. It overlaps with cu
Counterculture
…include the Levellers (1645–1650), Bohemianism (1850–1910), the more fragmentary counterculture of the Beat Generation (1944–1964), and the globalized counterculture of the 1960s. John Milton Yinger originated the term "contraculture" in his 1960 article in American Sociological Review. Yinger suggested the use of the term…
Underwater atomic test "Baker", Bikini Atoll, Pacific Ocean, 1946
Free Speech activist Mario Savio on the steps of Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 1966
King's "I Have a Dream" speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington
A family watches television, c. 1958