1960s'

and love, not because the world had become a utopia but, in my opinion,

because of the heavy use of the popular hallucinogenic drugs by the

American youth. In reality minorities were struggling to gain freedom

from segregation and thousands of American soldiers and Vietnamese

civilians were being killed in the highly disputed war in Vietnam.

On February 20, 1960 four black college freshmen from the Negro

Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina quietly

walked into a restaurant and sat down at the lunch counter. They were

protesting the Jim Crow custom that blacks could be served while

standing up but not while they were sitting at the lunch counter. The

students quietly sat there politely asking for service until closing time.

The next morning they showed up again accompanied by twenty five fellow

students. By the next week their sit down had been repeated in fourteen

cities in five deep south states. In the weeks to follow many new

protests arose. After a black woman was beaten w

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