Changes

By the mid-1950s an undercurrent of rebellion in culture began which is not shown on television shows.  One evening in 1955 in a book shop in San Francisco, a man named Allen Ginsberg (who grew up in Newark, NJ) stood up to read a long poem called the "Howl".  It was an attack on the conformity, materialism and hypocrisy of the 1950s.  This was the beginning of the "Beat Generation," captured best in Jack Kerouac's book "On the Road."  The Beat Generation advocated freedom, drugs, and being different simply for the sake of being different.  The name comes from "beat-up" lives of its leaders, which were often ugly.  Both Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, for example, suffered and died from illnesses associated with alcohol abuse.

By the mid-1950s an undercurrent of rebellion in culture began which is not shown on television shows.  One evening in 1955 in a book shop in San Francisco, a man named Allen Ginsberg (who grew up in Newark, NJ) stood up to read a long poem called the "Howl".  It was an attack on the conformity, materialism and hypocrisy of the 1950s.  This was the beginning of the "Beat Generation," captured best in Jack Kerouac's book "On the Road."  The Beat Generation advocated freedom, drugs, and being different simply for the sake of being different.  The name comes from "beat-up" lives of its leaders, which were often ugly.  Both Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, for example, suffered and died from illnesses associated with alcohol abuse.

By the 1960s the Beat Generation had blossomed into the hippie counterculture.  Grow your hair long, violate laws, disobey your parents, take drugs, go to rock concerts, have sex, and do whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it: that was the mantra of this rebellious youth.  Every form of authority was rejected by the "hippies".  Many of the leaders died of drug overdoses or other lifestyle illnesses.  Others ended up in jail, or caught sexually transmitter diseases.  They had slogans like "Don't trust anyone over 30" and sold books with titles like "Steal this Book."  Rock music started to advocate drug use.  Movies changed for the worse.  While the 1950s culture was about conforming, the 1960s culture was about rebelling.

By the 1960s the Beat Generation had blossomed into the hippie counterculture.  Grow your hair long, violate laws, disobey your parents, take drugs, go to rock concerts, have sex, and do whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it: that was the mantra of this rebellious youth.  Every form of authority was rejected by the "hippies".  Many of the leaders died of drug overdoses or other lifestyle illnesses.  Others ended up in jail, or caught sexually transmitted diseases.  They had slogans like "Don't trust anyone over 30" and sold books with titles like "Steal this Book."  Rock music started to advocate drug use.  Movies changed for the worse.  While the 1950s culture was about conforming, the 1960s culture was about rebelling.

== The Warren Court ==

== The Warren Court ==