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Event↕ | Year↕ | Location↕ | Attendance or Scope↕ | Movement↕ | Legacy↕ |
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Woodstock Music and Art Fair | 1969 | Bethel, New York | About 400,000 | Hippie counterculture | Three days of peace and music defined the counterculture, headlined by Hendrix, Joplin, The Who |
Summer of Love | 1967 | Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco | About 100,000 young people | Hippie movement | Flower children gathering introduced psychedelic rock, LSD culture, and Eastern mysticism to America |
Stonewall Uprising | 1969 | Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village NYC | Hundreds involved | LGBTQ rights | Police raid sparked six days of protests, catalyst for modern gay rights movement and Pride marches |
March on Washington | 1963 | National Mall, Washington DC | About 250,000 | Civil rights | MLK delivered I Have a Dream speech, accelerated 1964 Civil Rights Act |
Chicago 1968 DNC Protests | 1968 | Chicago, Illinois | About 10,000 protesters | Anti-Vietnam War | Police riot televised worldwide, Chicago Seven trial, radicalized many into the New Left |
Paris May 1968 | 1968 | Paris and across France | Millions (general strike) | Student and worker revolt | Near-revolution shook De Gaulle's government, inspired global 68 protests, reshaped French politics |
Monterey Pop Festival | 1967 | Monterey, California | About 200,000 | Rock counterculture | First major rock festival, Hendrix burned his guitar, Janis Joplin broke through, Otis Redding |
Kent State Shootings | 1970 | Kent, Ohio | Unarmed students | Anti-Vietnam War | National Guard killed four students, shocked nation, Neil Young's Ohio song, national student strike |
Freedom Summer | 1964 | Mississippi | Over 1,000 volunteers | Civil rights | Voter registration drive for Black Mississippians, murders of Chaney Goodman Schwerner galvanized nation |
Altamont Free Concert | 1969 | Altamont Speedway, California | About 300,000 | Rock counterculture | Rolling Stones concert ended in murder by Hells Angels security, seen as dark end of hippie era |
Prague Spring | 1968 | Czechoslovakia | Nationwide | Socialism with a human face | Dubcek reforms crushed by Soviet tanks, Jan Palach self-immolation, Charter 77 seedbed |
Selma to Montgomery Marches | 1965 | Alabama | Up to 25,000 on third march | Civil rights voting | Bloody Sunday at Edmund Pettus Bridge forced Voting Rights Act, John Lewis beaten but undeterred |
Berkeley Free Speech Movement | 1964 | UC Berkeley, California | Thousands of students | Student activism | Mario Savio's Bodies on the gears speech, launched 60s campus protest era, sit-in tactics |
Human Be-In | 1967 | Golden Gate Park, San Francisco | About 30,000 | Hippie movement | Timothy Leary urged crowd to tune in turn on drop out, launched Summer of Love, Allen Ginsberg chanted |
Tet Offensive Protests Wave | 1968 | US campuses nationwide | Hundreds of campuses | Anti-Vietnam War | Tet shattered war optimism, Cronkite's Vietnam reporting turned middle America, LBJ declined reelection |
Beatles Ed Sullivan Appearance | 1964 | CBS Studio 50, New York | About 73 million TV viewers | British Invasion | Beatlemania gripped America, reshaped youth culture, inspired thousands to pick up guitars |
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