The following people are well known for their involvement in 1960s era counterculture. Muhammad Ali (athlete, conscientious objector) Saul Alinsky (author, activist) Bill Ayers (activist, professor) Joan Baez (musician, activist) Sonny Barger (Hells Angel) Walter Bowart (newspaper publisher) Stewart Brand (environmentalist, author) Lenny Bruce (comedian, social critic) William S. Burroughs (author) George Carlin (comedian, social critic) Rachel Carson (author, environmentalist) Neal Cassady (Merry Prankster, literary inspiration) Cheech & Chong (comedians, social critics) Peter Coyote (Digger, actor) David Dellinger (pacifist, activist) Angela Davis (communist, activist) Rennie Davis (activist, community organizer) Emile de Antonio (documentary filmmaker) Bernadine Dohrn (activist) Bob Dylan (musician) Daniel Ellsburg (whistleblower) Bob Fass (radio host) Betty Friedan (feminist, author) Jane Fonda (actress, activist) Peter Fonda (actor, activist) Jerry Garcia (musician) Stephen Gaskin (author, activist, hippie) Allen Ginsberg (beat poet, activist) Dick Gregory (comedian, social critic, author, activist) Paul Goodman (novelist, playwright, poet) Wavy Gravy (hippie, activist) Bill Graham (concert promoter) Che Guevera (Marxist guerilla, revolutionary symbol) Hugh Hefner (publisher) Alan Haber (activist) Tom Hayden (activist, politician) Abbie Hoffman (Yippie, author) Dennis Hopper (actor, director) Jack Kerouac (author, early counterculture critic) Ken Kesey (author, Merry Prankster) Paul Krassner (author) William Kunstler (attorney, activist) Timothy Leary (professor, LSD advocate) John Lennon & Yoko Ono (musicians, artists, activists) Eugene McCarthy (anti-war politician) Michael McClure (poet) Barry Miles (author, impresario) Madalyn Murray OHair (atheist, activist) Ralph Nader (consumer advocate, author) Jack Nicholson (screenwriter, actor) Phil Ochs (protest/topical singer) Richard Pryor (comedian, social critic) Jerry Rubin (Yippie, activist) Mark Rudd (activist) Mario Savio (free speech/student rights activist) John Searle (professor, free speech advocate) Pete Seeger (musician, activist) John Sinclair (poet, activist) Gary Snyder (poet, writer, environmentalist) Smothers Brothers (musicians, TV performers, activists) Owsley Stanley (drug culture chemist) Gloria Steinem (feminist, publisher) Hunter S. Thompson (journalist, author) Kurt Vonnegut (author, pacifist, humanist) Andy Warhol (artist) Leonard Weinglass (attorney) Alan Watts (philosopher) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:21:15 +0000
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