The 1950's in America were considered a true awakening of youth culture. If this is true then the 1960's was a decade of discovery. It was a decade marred by social unrest, civil rights injustice, and violence abroad. These were some of the factors that lead to a revolution that attempted to bifurcate the fabric of American society. Teenagers were breaking away from the ideals that their parents held, and were attempting to create their …showed first 75 words of 1532 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1532 total…is the governments’ most powerful counter-revolutionary agent, a form of germ warfare. Since they can’t get us back into their system, they try to destroy us through heroin” (Gitlin 118). easy to side with the anti-war movement. During the 1960s, music helped fuel the fire for three movements which were the Civil Rights movement, the Student Movement, and the Anti-War movement. The new style of rock and other forms of music helped spawn these movements.