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Youth in search of a more socially constructive means to express their disaffection with the times can respond to posters like these for the Peace Corps and Vista.
The suffering of real-life soldiers such as these Americans on a Vietnam hill inspired the protest theater's bitter message.
Traditionally somber male attire seems in for drastic changes: the Nehru jacket (top) evinces the trend toward elegant plumage. Designs for women have tended to the 'less is more philos ophy, as shown by the flat-chested female man nequin above.
Student unrest in action at a peace rally in W ashing ton. Some of the older generation were alienated by the bitter attacks on Establishment values by mili tant student leaders who supported draft evasion, demanded a ‘democratic’ share in university gov ernment, and expressed disenchantment with what appeared to them as "battery-farming” methods. Yet when viewed in the historical context, their demands for 'relevance', and for a part in governing the institutions are the continuation of characteris tic American traditions in education.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1964, King wrote, "Nonviolent resistance paralyzed and confused the power structures against which it was di rected." Courtesy NAACP.
Proclaiming I960's mores bankrupt, flower chil dren do their own thing: the boy celebrates Love at a New York Be-lm the girl has just exchanged wedding vows in a California grove.