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Primary source:  Haight-Ashbury Maverick, "Notes to Tourists: Roll Down Your Windows," newspaper article, 1967.

Background information:  Increasing numbers of young people in the 1960s **dropped out of mainstream society** and sought **alternative lifestyles**. Many of these hippies, as they were called, congregated in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, California. A local newspaper offers tongue-in-cheek advice for tourists seeking a glimpse of the **counterculture**.


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Many tourists upon seeing the unshaven, unconventionally clothed **Love Generation** roll up their car windows and lock the doors. This is not necessary and can be mightily inconvenient. Some of the hippies do bite, but all of them have taken their rabies shots so their bite is not too bad. Honestly though, you must consider that the **unconventional attire** would make it easy to describe your assailant to the police. By the way, if it appears to you that there are no police in the area, have no fears—probably one out of every twenty males that you see between the ages of 25 and 35 is an officer of some kind or the other.

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"Notes to Tourists: Roll Down Your Windows," //Haight-Ashbury Maverick// (August 1967), reprinted in //The Times Were a Changin': The Sixties Reader//, ed. Irwin Unger and Debi Unger (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998), 191.

** Sixties Radicalism and Conservatism:  **
 * || [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Caitlin/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif width="20" height="1" caption="http://caho-test.cc.columbia.edu/images/spacer.gif"]] || The 1960s are commonly known as a period of social protest and dissent. Demanding "justice," antiwar demonstrators, civil-rights activists, feminists, and members of various other social groups sought redress for the wrongs they believed they suffered. A growing conservative movement, or "backlash," emerged in reaction to the counterculture. Conservatives began supporting political candidates who supported "law and order" and traditional or family values. By 1970, a certain disillusionment with the spirit of dissent began to be expressed in the popular press. ||

In the 1960s and early '70s an alliance of students, liberal thinkers and others started a movement (with a generally accepted birthplace of San Francisco) that challenged traditional morality and thought. Reviled by many, they were closely watched and sometimes feared by law enforcement. To their detractors, hippies were dirty, promiscuous, drug-crazed freeloaders. To their generation, they were the leaders of a class of individuals who questioned war, greed, violence, racism and fear-driven politics on the part of what they called "the Establishment." I was not a hippie, but like nearly everyone in my generation, I embraced certain (non-harmful) aspects of the culture—rock music, long hair, group sharing. Whether they became burned out from drug use, discouraged by repression or, more likely, grew into adult responsibilities, hippies effectively disappeared after about a ten-year span. The world may never again witness such a large and varied segment of humanity challenging the status quo. ([|www.history.net])

** Six Major 60’s Themes: **

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 * The generation gap between parents (who became adults around the time of the Second World War) and their children, the so-called baby boomers (who came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s).
 * The gap between rich and poor and the growing awareness, beginning in the late 1950s, of the paradoxical coexistence of widespread poverty and prosperity. This theme involves consideration of poverty and race as causes of urban riots.
 * Disagreement between liberals and conservatives on the proper role of government to redress poverty and other social ills.
 * The war between the sexes, as it came to be called by the 1970s, in which values deemed patriarchal were pitted against a reemerging feminist movement. This theme involves consideration of the tensions between two categories of women—those who supported traditional female roles (wife, mother) and those who supported feminist demands for social change, including abortion rights and an expansion of career opportunities for women.
 * Ideological or political differences, exemplified by the development of a conservative movement as a healthy alternative to the decade's protest movements.
 * The alienation of members of the middle class and their increasing identification with the Republican Party.

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