The Hippie Movement

The three most important events in California history is woman suffrage, the hippie movement, and black radicalism.

For many decades, women were treated unfairly and discriminated against, but it wasn't till the suffrage movement began in California which women were finally standing up for themselves. In the 1870s, the state legislature granted women the right to serve as an elect member of the school board and as superintendents. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) Laura de Force Gordon and Clara Shortridge Foltz were the first women to be "admitted to the University of California's Hastings School of Law" and would eventually graduate and practice law in the state of California. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) In
(Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) The hippie movement mainly appeals to the youth as a social protest and rebellion against society. One significance of the hippie movement was the introduction of a drug called lysergic acid diethylamide or commonly known as LSD. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) LSD users or experimenters often felt "deeply moving, exhilarating, and self-revealing and others users would feel "panic, bizarre, and suicidal behavior." (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) "Flower children" or "the love generation" were the terms often used by the news to describe the hippie movement in 1966. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) The hippies were against war and often place flowers in guns of the police and soldiers. (Encyclopedia: Hippies The leaders of the hippie movement were seeking to establish a new communal freedom and remove themselves from full society to a peace and love society. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) As the hippie movement was increasing in popularity, the American arm forces were increasing soldiers. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) The hippies challenged the society norms such as the environment and began the feminist movement. (http://legacy-hippie-movement.e-monsite.com/) The hippies started the movement of "reduce,
Newton, and Bobby G. Seale. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) Newton and Seale both students at Merritt Community College, predominantly African areas, and were influenced by Malcolm X, theorist Frantz Fanon but shared similar experience growing up. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) Newton and Seale were treated poorly by white police officers which they would establish a system of patrol cars, carrying law books and guns to protect the African American rights in Oakland. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) Eldridge Cleaver was the minister of information of the Black Panther Party and was convicted twice while in prison, and he began to admire Malcolm X, and he stated that the social system brutalized and degraded African people. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) Eventually, tension and fear between the police officers and the black panthers member would lead to tragic events. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) For example, in October 1967, an officer stopped a vehicle driven by Huey Newton that would eventually lead to the police officer being dead and Newton wounded. (Rawls and Walton, "California History" 2012) The Black Panther's beliefs and tactics were extreme and would ridicule others embracing their African heritage by wearing African dresses or learning Swahili. (Rawls and Walton, "California