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The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park.
In San Francisco the summer of 1967 was the Summer of Love; in other major American cities it was the “long, hot summer.” The United States erupted with unrest and riots as civil rights activists fought for equality.
Aug 21, 2017 · In the summer of 1967, a hundred thousand young people descended upon the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. These utopian-seeking artists, musicians, drifters, and hippies were there to...
Jul 6, 2017 · It was a summer of anti-war protests, peace movements, love, flowers, drugs and rock and roll that became known as the “Summer of Love,” which had a lasting impact on America.
Aug 3, 2021 · The seeds of San Francisco’s “Summer of Love” were planted the previous winter. On January 14, 1967, more than 20,000 people gathered in Golden Gate Park for the “Human Be-In,” an event...
About the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love. The spring and summer of 1967 brought nearly 100,000 outsiders, activists, and dreamers to San Francisco. These young people traveled far and wide to join a community of artists, musicians, poets, and radicals who would change the world–influencing popular culture through music and art ...
Jun 14, 2012 · It was billed as “the Summer of Love,” a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco streets in 1967. Who were the true movers behind the...
Oct 26, 2023 · The Human Be-In is held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967, launching the "Summer of Love." The event draws more than 20,000 people to enjoy peace, love, music and...
Nov 21, 2017 · In 1967, Charles Manson landed dead center in the country’s countercultural carnival, just a couple months before the Summer of Love. The moment he saw the sidewalk gurus in Haight-Ashbury luring young flocks of believers, he found a new calling, the perfect gig for a conniver desperate for attention. Learn More →.
Jul 18, 2017 · In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience, only to discover that what they had...
