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The Human Be-In took its name from a chance remark by the artist Michael Bowen made at the Love Pageant Rally. [6] The playful name combined humanist values with the scores of sit-ins that had been reforming college and university practices and eroding the vestiges of entrenched segregation, starting with the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee.
Additionally, media coverage of the Monterey Pop Festival facilitated the Summer of Love as large numbers of hippies traveled to California to hear favorite bands such as the Who, Grateful Dead, the Animals, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Otis Redding, the Byrds, and Big Brother and the Holding ...
In 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and the Monterey International Pop Festival [12] popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. Hippies in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La Onda (the Wave) and gathered at ...
As a hippie Ken Westerfield helped to popularize Frisbee as an alternative sport in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of hippie style had been integrated into mainstream American society by the early 1970s. [57] [58] [59] Large rock concerts that originated with the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the 1968 Isle of Wight Festival became the norm ...
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, [6] [7] 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.
The term Woodstock Nation refers specifically to the attendees of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. The phrase was coined by Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman, [1] and was later used as the title of his book Woodstock Nation: A Talk-Rock Album describing his experiences at the festival. [1] [2]
The Hog Farm is an organization considered America's longest running hippie commune.Beginning as a collective in North Hollywood, California, during the 1960s, a later move to an actual hog farm in Tujunga, California gave the group its name.
On November 20, 1969, the group Indians of All Tribes (IAT) began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) in the San Francisco Bay, just off the shoreline of the city. The protesters, predominantly students, drew inspiration and tactics from contemporary civil rights demonstrations, some of which they had themselves ...