Emphasis Preaching Journal
In the 1960s, the hippies...
Illustration
In the 1960s, the hippies were a protest group against the customs and traditions of society. Young adults between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five, they believed that most older adults cared only about making money. Thus, distrust of adults over thirty and ensuing generation gap. Hippies were opposed to the economic disparity between the rich and the poor, the treatment of some minority groups, and the Vietnam War.
