The Sixties Youth Rebellion

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This paper discusses the sixties youth rebellion and how it changed the role of young people in society. It looks at how the 1960s youth rebellion is famous in American history since it created the hippie movement, showed young people could be extremely involved in current world events, and shaped an entire generation. It attempts to show how the youth rebellion of the 1960s was one of the most defining moments in American culture, and helped change the face of society.

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"The youth rebellion of the sixties encompassed several important factors. When the rebellion began, it was partly in response to the ongoing war in Vietnam, which many young people were against very strongly. It also embodied the free thinking, free sex, drug culture that grew up around the hippie movement, as a strong rebellion against society and the "older generation," who they felt were uptight and ruining the country. As one historian writes, "The sixties youth revolt was in part about the possibility of redefining 'adulthood' in our society. If a single theme united the otherwise disparate forms of political and cultural protest that characterized the period, it was the romantic belief that the young could make themselves into new persons" (Flacks, and Whalen 2). "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Flacks, Richard, and Jack Whalen. Beyond the Barricades: The Sixties Generation Grows Up. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
• Isserman, Maurice, and Michael Kazin. America Divided The Civil War of the 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Rodnitzky, Jerome L. "The Sixties between the Microgrooves: Using Folk and Protest Music to Understand American History, 1963-1973." Popular Music and Society 23.4 (1999): 105.

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