Editing Flower power (section)

{{Short description|Slogan of passive resistance and nonviolence}}
{{other uses|Flower power (disambiguation)}}
[[File:Vietnamdem.jpg|250px|thumb|A demonstrator offers a flower to military police at an anti-Vietnam War protest at [[The Pentagon]] in [[Arlington, Virginia]], 21 October 1967]]
'''Flower power''' was a [[slogan]] used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of [[passive resistance]] and [[nonviolence]].<ref>Stuart Hall, "The Hippies: An American Moment" published in Ann Gray (Ed.), ''CCCS Selected Working Papers'', Routledge,  (December 20, 2007), p.155 {{ISBN|0-415-32441-6}}</ref> It is rooted in the [[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|opposition movement to the Vietnam War]].<ref>Chatarji, Subarno, ''Memories of a Lost War: American Poetic Responses to the Vietnam War'', Oxford University Press, 2001,  p.42 {{ISBN|0-19-924711-0}}</ref> The expression was coined by the American [[Beat Generation|Beat poet]] [[Allen Ginsberg]] in 1965 as a means to transform war protests into peaceful affirmative spectacles.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/ginsberg_a.html "Allen Ginsburg"], American Masters, Public Broadcasting System, pbs.org, retrieved 30-04-2009</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Guide to the Allen Ginsberg Papers: Biography/Administrative History |url=http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/hb/tf5c6004hb/files/tf5c6004hb.pdf | work=The Online Archive of California | publisher=Stanford University | year=1997 | page=3 | access-date=2011-09-21}}</ref><ref>Tony Perry, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-06-mn-46040-story.html "Poet Allen Ginsberg Dies at 70"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', April 06, 1997</ref> [[Hippie]]s embraced the symbolism by dressing in clothing with embroidered flowers and vibrant colors, wearing flowers in their hair, and distributing flowers to the public, becoming known as [[flower child]]ren.<ref>Rennay Craats, ''History of the 1960s'', Weigl Publishers Inc., 2001, p.36 {{ISBN|1-930954-29-8}}</ref> The term later became generalized as a modern reference to the hippie movement and the so-called [[counterculture of the 1960s|counterculture]] of drugs, [[psychedelic music]], psychedelic art and social permissiveness.<ref>Heilig, S., "The Brotherhood of Eternal Love-From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of LSD Counterculture", ''Journal of Psychoactive Drugs'', 2007, Vol 39; No 3, pages 307-308</ref>