Counterculture Movement Flash Cards – Flashcards

The culture and lifestyle of those who rejected or opposed the dominant values of behavior and society. Specifically a protest movement by American youth lasting the decade of the 1960s to oppose the culture and ideals of middle class America; consumerism and traditional values

A youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originated in San Francisco in the 1960s. They rejected established institutions and values and sough spontaneity, direct personal relations, expressing love and expanding consciousness often expressed externally as folk style clothing, beads, headbands, etc.

A social phenomenon occurring in the summer of 1967 where up to 100,000 people converged in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco. This solidified San Francisco as the center of the hippie movement. Often considered the height of the counterculture movement.

A music festival where 500,000 people came together united in the hippie ideals of peace, love and cultural expression in Bethel New York

state and local laws enforcing segregation in the southern U.S. Enacted after the reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965

In the U.S. constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1868 which guaranteed equal protection under the law for all citizens

Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public places and facilities were legal as long as the facilities were equal. This case created the separate but equal doctrine.

U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional

Nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957

founded in 1909 to abolish segregation, discrimination and to oppose racism to gain civil rights for African Americans

An American lawyer and the first African American to serve on the supreme court (1967). Before becoming a judge he was a lawyer for the NAACP with a high success rate in arguing before the supreme court and is most well known for his work on Brown V. Board of Education

to protest at lunch counters that served only whites, African Americans students began staging these

A movement in support of rights and political power for black people especially prominent in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s. Known for using opposite tactics of the predominant peaceful protestors in the Civil Rights Movement

Founded in 1962, the SDS was a popular college student organization that protested shortcomings in American Life notably racial injustice and the Vietnam War. It led thousands of campus protests before it split in the late 1960s

A youth-dominated political movement of the 1960s embodied in such organization as SDS and the free speech movement

the idea of political ownership, that the people have a say in government policies effecting them.

A branch off of SDS, led by former SDS leader Tom Hayden, that advocated terroism in the U.S. to stop another Vietnam war from happening. The name coming from singer/songwriter Bob Dylan lyrics

A communist-led army and Guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam. Name given by Diem regime to Communist guerrilla movement in southern Vietnam; reorganized with northern Vietnamese assistant as the National Liberation Front in 1958

evading the military draft through obtaining a deferment, failing the physical or fleeing the country.

practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs

Nonviolent civil rights organization founded in 1942 and committed to the "Double V"- victory over fascism abroad and racism at home. After WWII it became a major force in the civil rights movement