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1960s Counterculture Events

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Woodstock's muddy utopia, the Summer of Love, Stonewall's uprising or the March on Washington - which 1960s counterculture moment shaped the modern world most?

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Event↕	Year↕	Location↕	Attendance or Scope↕	Movement↕	Legacy↕
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