College students who became involved in the counter-culture revolution did so as a form of resistance against the authority. The Civil Rights Movement was the very first topic that brought them together; they took part in the 1964 Summer of Freedom in Mississippi, which intended to enfranchise African Americans. Following the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964, their focus switched to the Vietnam War.
The counter-culture, with motions like Mario Savio's Freedom of Speech progression and the SDS (founded in 1962 with Tom Hayden's Port Huron Statement), played a significant position in bringing the national government to its knees. The administration was obliged to withdraw its engagement in Vietnam because to public criticism.
The Woodstock concert was an important event organized by participants in the counter culture community in the province of New York in 1969 when the conflict was a hot topic to the point where Jimmy Hendrix ridiculed the patriotic song by creating bombing noises.