counterculture movement
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a period when long held values and norms of behavior seemed to break down, particularly among the young. Many college age men and women became political activists and were the driving force behind the civil rights and antiwar movements.
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the Vietnam War mushroomed, issues that touched on student freedom, such as dress codes, course requirements, discrimination by sororities and fraternities, and minority admissions, were hot topics on campus. Also the administration tried to control political activity at the University of California at Berkeley in the fall of 1964, the Free Speech Movement was formed.
The hippies
The Hippies was the most middle‐class whites but without the political drive. Their hallmarks were a particular style of dress that included jeans, tie‐dyed shirts, sandals, beards, long hair, and a lifestyle that embraced sexual promiscuity and recreational drugs including marijuana and the hallucinogenic LSD.
Sexual politics
Oral contraceptives became available by 1970, 12 million women were on the pill. They used other means of birth control such as diaphragms and IUDs, also increased. Many states had already legalized abortion, and the new women's movement was committed to making the procedure even more widely available.
Free speech movement
Before opposition to the Vietnam War mushroomed, issues that touched on student freedom, such as dress codes, course requirements, discrimination by sororities and fraternities, and minority admissions, were hot topics on campus.