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Lectures in History

1950s & 60s Counterculture

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

News, History, Politics

4.2737 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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University of Washington professor William Rorabaugh teaches a class on the counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s in America. He compares the literature, clothing, music and world view of the beats and beatniks of the '50s and the hippies of the '60s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On lectures and history, University of Washington professor William Roarbaugh teaches a class on the counterculture of the 1950s and 60s in America.

1:04.4

He compares the literature, clothing, music, and worldview of the beats and beatniks of the 50s and the hippies of the 1960s.

1:12.2

He also talks about the spread of LSD and the prevalence of drugs and hippie culture.

1:17.2

This class is about 55 minutes.

1:21.5

Okay, so today we're going to talk about the counterculture,

1:26.0

which in many ways people have associated

1:28.0

with the 1960s is one of the major aspects of the 1960s.

1:34.8

One can say that of the decade of the 60s that radical politics clearly failed and faded

1:41.8

away and social change bumped up against what you might call certain limitations.

1:47.7

It's true that race relations changed, and official white supremacy, you know, legal segregation, disappeared,

1:55.0

and Americans certainly became more tolerant, but race did not disappear as a fact in American life,

2:00.6

which many liberals in the 1950s and

2:02.6

60s had thought that it would, or hoped that it would.

2:06.6

Gender relations also changed, and women assumed new responsibilities and new roles.

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