Were the hippies in the 60s or 70s?

Also to know is, who were the hippies in the 1960s?

In many ways, the hippies of the 1960s descended from an earlier American counterculture: the Beat Generation. This group of young bohemians, most famously including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S.

what was the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s? The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment movement that spread throughout the Western world in the 1960s. The counterculture movement involved large groups of people, predominantly young people and youth, who rejected many of the beliefs that were commonly held by society at large.

Keeping this in view, when did the hippie era end?

The Vietnam War (1959-1975) was a major issue that the hippies vehemently opposed. But by the 1970s, the war was gradually winding down, and finally by 1975 (when the war ended) one of the core factors for their raison d'être was gone.

When did the hippie movement begin?

1960s