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Note to teacher: The primary sources used in this lesson contain passing reference to drug use. Teacher discretion advised.
In this lesson, students explore the significance of the Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s by watching clips from the documentary Long Strange Trip and reading journalistic accounts of the hippie movement in that neighborhood. They then debate the significance of the countercultural scene: were hippies trying to change American society, or simply escape it?
