The summer of 1967 saw a surge in protests and the rise of the hippie movement. Frustration with the Vietnam War fueled social and political discontent. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco ...

The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...

And as for the areas where we're not re-experiencing 1967 -- the sexual revolution, the drug culture, the civil rights movement, the civil unrest -- that's because the subculture has now become the ...

—Revisit the Summer of 1967 When Thousands of Young People Flocked to San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury— AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents “Summer Of Love,” a striking look at the social and cultural forces ...

SAN FRANCISCO — First came a moratorium on head shops. Then, neighbors turned out in force to support a new development that includes an upscale grocery store. And the local street fair banned open ...