The+Summer+of+Love

Summer Sulzer & Anna Bonebrake Mr. Burkhart Honors American History 5/16/11

=** T h e S u m m e r o f L o v e **=

Background/Overview
The Summer of Love was a time where a multitudinous amount of young people gathered to create a new social experience. A mass amount of hippie counterculture began blossoming in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco in the summer of 1967. San Francisco began attracting young college students and high school students during their breaks, where they brought much more attention to the hippie counterculture. That summer, Haight community leaders, who were determined to stop the influence of the hippie counterculture, responded to their actions by forming the Council of the Summer of Love. People from all over the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury district, Berkeley and other San Francisco Bay Areas, came to join the now popular hippie experience. It was a time where free food, drugs, and medical need was given no matter who you were or where you came from.

Teenagers, young college students and high school students wanting to get the hippie experience.
 * Whom?**

During the summer of 1967.
 * When?**

Haight-Ashbury, Berkeley and other San Francisco Bay areas were the main hippie places but it was happening all over the world.
 * Where?**

A bunch of people including many teenagers got together with free food, drugs, and medical need in these San Francisco areas to get the experience of the new counterculture, hippies.
 * What happened?**

The teenagers were longing for a new social experience and went to San Francisco to get that experience.
 * Why?**

The Summer of Love teens helped lead to the process of ending racism. They also helped to end the idea that women were second-class citizens. It allowed new generations to experience new social views. It allowed teens to form new relationships with people in other countries.
 * Impact (significance) of the topic?**

http://www.summeroflove-uk.com/1967.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070531/A_ENTERTAIN/705310307/-1/A_ENTERTAIN01
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