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Origin of "Hippie"
Origin of the word “hippie” by Harry Gibson’s song “Harry the Hipster” -
Introduction to Beat Generation
Introduced the “Beat Generation” to the U.S. (the term “beat” came from “tired” or “beaten down -
Ban the Bomb
Ban-The-Bomb Protest / Anti-nuclear Activists coordinated a worldwide protest against nuclear weapons -
Owsley Stanley
Stanley converted his amphetamines lab to an LSD lab and became one of the first millionaire drug dealers in the United States. His LSD product became a part of the “Red Dog Experience”, the early evolution of psychedelic rock and the budding hippie culture. -
Chandler A. Laughlin II
Chandler A. Laughlin II, cofounder of Cabale Creamery Club in Berkeley, was greatly influenced by the Beat Generation and their beatnik culture. He followed their lead and established a tight family-like identity among 50 people in Greenwich Village in New York City and later Berkeley, California. Laughlin recruited many of the early psychedelic musical talent acts including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Iron Butterfly, The Charlatans, and others. -
The Feminine Mystique Published
The Feminine Mystique is published and Betty Friedan launches the modern feminist movement -
Flower Power
poet Allen Ginsberg created it as a way for the people to turn war into peace -
The “Hippie” comes into Being
Michael Fallen starts a series of stories for the San Francisco Examiner, introducing the word “hippie” to readers -
Haight-Ashbury
San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district was the epicenter to the hippie movement -
LSD Becomes Illegal
California became the first state to make LSD illegal when they declared LSD a controlled substance -
Human-Be-In
The Human-Be-In event was held in Golden State Park in San Francisco and 30,000 hippies show up -
Monterey Pop Festival
3 day music festival that embodied the theme of California as a focal point for the counterculture and is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967 -
The Haight Ashbury Scene
The Haight Ashbury scene had deteriorated dramatically. They couldn’t accommodate the influx of hundreds of thousands of hippies. -
Anti-war March
Hippies marched peacefully at the pentagon for anti-war -
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone magazine premiers with John Lennon on the cover out of San Francisco -
Chicago Protest
Hippies protest the Democratic Convention in Chicago to demonstrate against the Vietnam War -
Charles Mansion
Charles Mansion (former Haight-Ashbury resident) who the public identified as a drug crazed hippie, murdered Sharon Tate and her unborn baby -
Woodstock
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace, Music, and Love 500,000 people attend Woodstock Music & Art Fair in Bethel, New York and make history -
Meredith Hunter
18 yr. old African American, Meredith Hunter, was stabbed and killed at the Altamont Free Concert during a performance by the Rolling Stones. The murder happened to be caught on the video footage of the Stone's documentary Gimme Shelter -
First Earth Day
The first Earth Day took place in 1970. Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson got the idea to organize students and hold environmental teach-ins at schools across the country -
Waning Hippie Movement
Hippie Movement began to wane form the events at the Altamont Free Concert and the overdose of hippie mega-stars like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison -
Environmental Practices Today
200 million people in more than 140 countries participated in events that focused on saving the rainforests, eliminating hazardous wastes, recycling and acid rain
