What did hippies protest?
Vietnam…but here is a little, “Hippie History” for you. Hippies By Jane Runyon 1 If you were to ask ten different people what a hippie is, you would probably get ten different answers. The hippie generation appeared in America in the late 1960’s. Hippies could generally by identified by the way they looked. The women wore long peasant type skirts and blouses. They let their long hair hang free. The men wore baggy, ill-fitting pants and, in many cases, tie-dyed shirts. Both sexes preferred sandals and being barefoot to any other kind of footwear. You would often see them carrying flowers and wearing peace signs along with their beaded jewelry. 2 Many young people in the late 60’s were searching for a purpose to their lives. Many were drawn to Middle Eastern forms of meditation and yoga which promised to bring them “inner peace.” They watched such musical idols as the Beatles search for the same thing. What started as a search by a few, turned into a movement involving thousands of you
