Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. Peace, love, and harmony. The ’60s were a helluva decade – a time when civil rights, gay rights, women’s lib, and the Vietnam war all took center stage… and protesting was a way of life.
To celebrate the grassroots countercultural movements of the 1960s, we’ve hand picked some of our favorite protest signs from this decade. To mix things up, we felt we had to throw throw in a couple of very reactionary signs as well. We think these conservative views illustrate some of the mainstream thinking a lot of progressive people felt so fed up about, to the point where drugs and loud music became a perfectly reasonable responses. (via Whizzpast)
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