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The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies , beatniks , and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park .
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.
The Love Pageant Rally drew several thousand people. It was a warm-up for the Human Be-In [4] the following January, which brought 30,000 together and established media attention to hippie culture that then led to The Summer of Love.
On the third night, police indiscriminately attack protesters and bystanders, including journalists Mike Wallace and Dan Rather and Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner. The next night police attack anti-war protesters in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel as demonstrators chant "The whole world is watching". The spectacle amounts to a turning point for ...
Sheppard said of 1967: "That summer there was a social, sexual and musical revolution and Sgt. Pepper was at the heart of it. It was the year of the hippie, of Peace, Flower Power and the Summer of Love. All over the world young people were experimenting with new ways of living and seeking to create a better future.
Its protesters plan to show up outside Reedley High School on Thursday morning before school. Cordova said it “was kind of crazy” to learn that Westboro Baptist Church was targeting her school.
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Is a billionaire bankrolling student protests at universities across the country? "We all knew it but now it’s confirmed … " read one April 26 Facebook post that shared a screengrab of a New ...