Woman and child in Drop City near Trinidad. History Colorado, the state's historical society, is looking back at 1968, a year that was pivotal for the country and Colorado. Robert Kennedy and Martin ...
In the late 1960s, long-haired, beaded and tie-dyed flower children brought their drugs, incense, guitars and peace symbols to South Florida. Hippies had finally reached Miami. Coconut Grove, known ...
The rise of labor organizing in white-collar workplaces. About 3,000 Florida hippies held an Easter love-in on April 15, 1968, at Miami’s Greynolds Park. Hippies didn’t just indulge in cultural ...
“Hippie harassment suit in court again,” stated The Aspen Times on May 8, 1969. “Aspen’s well-publicized 1968 hippie harassment suit against the City of Aspen and its police broke into the news again ...
Some California evangelicals are breaching barriers to hippies and other urban “unreachables.” Most of the dropouts have church backgrounds, many of them evangelical. An increasing number are ...
This documentary about the Hippie movement was originally shown in three segments on NBC television's "Huntley-Brinkley Report." It follows several teen-age boys from a glue-sniffing party in their ...
Half a century ago, I saw history just outside my front door, though I didn’t immediately recognize it. What I could all too clearly see was that police were flaying a neighbor’s houseguest. He was ...