Hippies - Counter Culture Movement

Social Change
Counter-culture movement

Part #1
This social/ cultural movement occurred during the late 60s and the early 70s. People that participated where mostly white middle-class students which were referred to as Hippies. Many of them believed in the New Left Movement whose concern was that the American society with its materialism, technology and war had grown hollow and that something ought to be down against that. Hippies fought for the abolishment of every hierarchy, so that people wouldn’t be judged according to their race, gender, religion or social class. Counter-culture movement participants protested against the society by simply leaving it and creating their own, perfect in their eyes, little world. People left worlds of school, work or home to live together in streets, parks or group homes with the goal to create an idyllic setting of peace love and harmony. Hippies lived in rural communes or in more crowded areas known as “crash pads”. Major centers of ga...