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 during the mid-20th century. It began in the mid-1960s and cont
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
Baby boomers
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Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964. T
Two Dutch children playing with toys (1958): The 1950s and 1960s were an economically prosperous time in the West.
A household refrigerator (Frigidaire) drawn for the Ladies' Home Journal (1948)
About 21 million Volkswagen Beetles were sold, and they are a generational icon of the 1960s and 1970s.
An automotive factory worker with his family, car, and home in 1954