thousands of topics came flying at me, but there was only one that seemed to

catch my attention: the hippie movement. there is so much information on the hippie
movement that i wanted to know it all. sadly, since so much happened during this era, i
decided to study about what had happened during the vietnam war. this time was during
the 1960s through the 1970s. as an aspiring youth, my thoughts on the hippie movement
were cloudy. i clearly had no information on the subject. i confronted my parents and
they briefly described what happened during the hippie movement and the vietnam war.
after this talk, i was strongly into the idea of studying the hippie movement for the history
fair.

first of all, i went to the internet at school and found a great quantity of
information. i took notes of what i found. on the internet, i found about two videos on the
movement. i also asked my history teacher if she has any interesting and useful books on
the topic. surprisingly, she did have a little book on the vietnam war, and a few pages on
the anti-war movement. i gathered all my information and combined them and put them
in exact order to create a large outline. this was extreamly helpful, due to the fact that i
put a time line on my exibit that i've created.

i decided to construct an exibit for this particular project. i was brainstorming on

what i should do as soon as i determinded the topic i was responsible for. i was inspired
by a tye-dye shirt someone was wearing, and since my topic is on hippies, i decided to
make tye-dye my theme. for creating the backboard, i gathered as much information as
needed and found very interesting photographs of the event. i placed a the tye-dye shirt,
that i had made,onto the board. i also mounted pictures (black and white) and facts onto it
with tacks, to make is seem like a bulletin board from the 60s.

the theme for this year is conflict and compromise. the hippie movement
involving the vietnam war is what i see as a wonderful example. as you may already
know, the vietnam war is already a conflict. it all started in the year of 1959, when the
vietnam war began. shortly after this, the hippie movement started in san fracisco,
california. many students at universities across the country held "teach-in" rallies, which
quickly transformed into protest marches as the war progressed. these students were
against the war in vietnam, and formed protests. the first march to washington against the
war took place on december, 1964. only 25,000 people took part but it was still the
largest anti-war demonstration in american history. after the war had ended by the
victorious north vietnam, the hippie movement slowly came to an end.

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