Hippies: Hippies were members of a youth movement beginning in the United States during the mid-1960s which spread around Western countries. They advocated for peace, love and freedom; rejected mainstream societal values; experimented with music & drugs; had unique styles of dress & grooming.
Flower Children: Flower children were a specific sect of the hippie movement, known for their passive resistance to war and their embrace of love, peace, and simple, idealistic values often expressed through art and music.
Beat Generation: A literary movement in the 1950s that laid much of the groundwork for the later counterculture movement. Its members expressed feelings of alienation from conventional society.