Malcom X

Malcom X's speech the Ballot or the Bullet serves an as a call to arms to the African-American community. I thought that it was very similar to the letter Martin Luther King wrote in the Memphis jail. Malcom X is discussing many of the issues that were prevelent during that time. Blacks were treated disgustingly by many whites, and most if not all of their complaints fell on deaf ears. I think that leaders like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are the people who really created the sixties as an era for counterculture. The blacks were fighting for rights they should have always had andi think that it woke other people up to look at some of the absurd things that were going on in the country. They realize how little control they had over decisions and decided it was time to get that control.

The Psychedelic Poster

Sally Tomlinson's article was an interesting chronicle of the psychedelic rock poster. She did a great job of chronicling the history of rock music at the time, showing how it evolved over the years especially with the growing popularity of the music festival. It is interesting to see how the poster evolved into an art form, which largely goes unappreciated. Today many music poster are simply way to let people know when and where a show will be. In the 60's it was a way to get people to start experiencing the psychedelic nature of the show they were going to see.

Wanted Hip Cops

The wanted poster of Hip Cops is very interesting. For a group of people who had many disagreements with police it is interesting to see that they have discovered the best way to accomplish change is not necessarily through unrest, but to join the group and change it from the inside. The poster also has a picture of a long haired bearded police officer, something that was most likely against regulations at the time. This suggests that those people who look like hippies should apply, even stating that the ACLU will back the person if they think they were not hired because of prejudice. It is interesting that the poster does not comment on the age requirements and the height requirements or that two years of college are needed. None of which are requirements to join the police force today. You would they would fight for the right of the short person, or the fat person, even the old person. It seems that they have missed out on other physical aspects that can create predjudice, focusing solely on race and hair length