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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (86648)	12/11/2010 2:59:39 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

dude, there were actually hippies in 1964 and they are why the Civil Rights Act passed. Dude, its 2010, not 1964. The country has changed. I didn't change it; someone else did. So please don't blame me.

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (86648)	12/11/2010 3:02:19 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

"there were actually hippies in 1964 and they are why the Civil Rights Act passed" No. It was Freedom Riders from up North, and people like my California rabbi marching in Selma. Besides, Although the word hippie made isolated appearances during the early 1960s, the first clearly contemporary use of the term appeared in print on September 5, 1965, in the article, "A New Haven for Beatniks", by San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon. In that article, Fallon wrote about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse, using the term hippie to refer to the new generation of beatniks who had moved from North Beach into the Haight-Ashbury district. en.wikipedia.org