8.12 - 1960s Youth Culture

- Baby boomers started Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the New Left - new liberal groups to increase rights

- Free Speech Movement: Berkeley students demands greater voice in political activities

- College students increasingly against Vietnam War because of draft

- Chicago Democratic Convention: Yippies (Youth International Party) violently protest

- Weather Underground: SDS violent group, discredited New Left

- Counterculture: rebellious fashion, music, drugs, communal living

- Folk & rock

- Woodstock music festival - LSD and other drugs addiction

- Alfred Kinsey sex psychology that gay is common

- Sexual revolution: abortion, premarital sex more common