Hippies Of The 60S And The Role Of Women - America

Hey there!

I am a Year 12 student and I'm doing a history essay about the hippie revolution of the 1960s. It is focused in how the hippie movement changed the role of women in the American society, to what extent was it a feminist movement.

I would like to know if there is any of you who actually LIVED in America at that time and can help me with this topic. I only need your name and surname, the dates of the events you're referring to, and anything that can be relevant that you want to share really!
If you know someone that could help me, please pass me her/his contact (i.e. email).

My email is melody.lee11@yahoo.com.au

Thank you so much!!

 

And remember to watch footage of the things that happened in the 60s.
Here's the January 1967 Human Be-In:
http://www.openculture.com/2014/09/rare-footage-of-human-be-in.html

 

the thing about the 60s, is that they came after the 50s. and the 50s were so messed up, they made anything look good.

i was born in 1948. does that count?

in 1960 i was 12 years old. in 1966 i graduated high school. in 1968 i joined the air force to avoid being drafted into the army.
i grew up rural, not agrarian rural, but wilderness rural. my dad worked for the railroad. so i wasn't part of the movements and the scenes down in the city,
but i read between the lyins of corporate media. i cheered for kennidy when he got elected, cried when he got shot, and watched the first human set foot on the moon.

the 50s was every kind of discrimination, segrigation, women, mccarthyism too. 60s a lot of young people went to jail to change all that, and corporate media invented the name "hippie" to discredit them for doing so. attempting to discredit the youthful majority holding the moral high ground as hedonist backfired big time.

i can't offer anything specific on the women's movement, other then that it was integral to the agenda of getting rid of everything that had been wrong with the 50s and the struggle to do so.

i remember seeing a poster that asked 'where do you see a woman's place as being? a down on the kitchen floor, b, flat on her back in bed with her legs spread, or c, leading the fight for human rights' it went something like that anyway. along with that child's painting looking anti-war poster that said war is harmful to children and other living things.

and of course there was also the poster that said 'draft beer, not students'.

every decade has its compensations too. in the 50s there were lots of buses and trains, and lots of places where you didn't need a building permit either. but weighed against j. edgar hover, maccarthy and eisenhour's encouraging of maccarthy's ideological fanatacism, the 50s were really fucked, and so the 60s, that a kennidy COULD get elected, inspite of viet nam, lbj and nixxon, was just a major uplift and time of hope.

the one big mistake of the 60s and 70s, was the shift of transportation policy toward a virtual worship of the automobile, for which we are paying now, with environment and climate.