Peace, Love, and Beyond
Introduction
Bibliography
Timeline
Spirituality and Religion
Expression
Drug Culture
Anti-War Movement
Woodstock and Music
Timeline Hippie Movement: 1938-1975
Nov 16, 1938
– LSD first synthesized by Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist
Mar 15, 1960
- Greensboro, N.C., sit-in
Aug 9, 1960
– Timothy Leary tried psilocybin mushrooms in Mexico
Sep 11, 1960
- Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) founded
Nov 8, 1960
– John F. Kennedy elected president
Apr 25, 1961
– Bay of Pigs; Kennedy allowed CIA to begin its raid
Aug 13, 1961
– The Soviets began building the Berlin Wall
Feb 19, 1963
- Betty Friedan’s
The Feminine Mystique
Aug 28, 1963
- MLK gives his "I Had A Dream" speech at the March on Washington
Nov 22, 1963
– John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas; succession of Lyndon B. Johnson to presidency
June 1964
- Freedom Summer begins
July 2, 1964
– The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed
Aug 1964
–
The Psychedelic Experience
published
1965
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1967
– Great Society, Lyndon B. Johnson's initiation
Jan 1965
– Martin L. King a voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama
Feb 21, 1965
– Malcolm X was assassinated
Mar 8, 1965
– Over 3,000 American soldiers were sent to South Vietnam
Sep 5, 1965
– For the first time used the term “hippie”
Mar 25, 1966
– Anti-Vietnam war protests
Oct 1966
– Black Panther Party founded in Oakland, California
1967
– Timothy Leary organized a Human Be-In in San Francisco
Jan 14, 1967
– Human Be-In in San Francisco in Golden Gate Park
June 16-18, 1967
– Monterey Pop Festival
July 14, 1967
- Summer of Love in San Francisco
1968
– American Indian Movement founded
Jan 16, 1968
– Youth International Party, or “yippies,” established
Jan 31, 1968
– Tet Offensive
Feb 1968
– Beatles visited Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India
Mar 16, 1968
- My Lai Massacre; American troops had killed 350 South Vietnamese civilians
Apr 4, 1968
– Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis
Nov 5, 1968
– Richard Nixon elected president
Aug 15-17, 1969
- Woodstock Festival
Oct 21, 1969
- Jack Kerouac dies, author of “On the Road,” Beat generation
1970
–
Sisterhood Is Powerful
published
Apr 22, 1970
– The First Earth Day
Jan 27, 1973
– Paris Peace Agreement ends war in Vietnam
Nov 16, 1973
- Allan W. Watts dies in Mt. Tamalpais, California
Aug 9, 1974
- Richard Nixon resigns in Watergate scandal
Apr 30, 1975
- Last Americans depart Saigon in Vietnam