The Beat Generation was a literary movement in the 1950s, which was not overtly political. Nonetheless, what sets of attitudes or values of the Beats
influenced the later counterculture of the 1960s?
The counterculture of the 1960s was roughly divided into two parts or phases: 1) political activism of students, antiwar protesters, etc.; and 2) the "flower
power" or the "hippie" movement. How were the two related? What did they have in common? How did they differ politically? How did the hippie movement undermine the earlier political activism?