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Flower child or Flower Children originated as a synonym for hippie, especially those who gathered in San Francisco and environs during the summer of 1967, which was called the Summer of Love. It was the custom of "Flower Children" to wear flowers to symbolize peace and love. During the earliest years of its use, the term was most commonly used in the plural, only rarely in the singular.

Scott McKenzie's rendition of the song "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" was released in May 1967.[1] The song was written by John Phillips to promote the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, and it urged visitors to San Francisco to "wear some flowers in (their) hair," in keeping with the festival's billing as "three days of music, love and flowers":

If you're going to San Francisco,
be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...
If you come to San Francisco,
Summertime will be a love-in there.


"San Francisco" became an instant hit (#4 in the United States, #1 in the U.K.[2]) and quickly transcended its original purpose.

As many as 100,000 young people from all over the world flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, Berkeley and other Bay Area cities during the Summer of Love.[1] The Summer of Love became a watershed event in the development of a worldwide 1960s counterculture when newly recruited Flower Children returned home at the end of the summer, taking with them new styles, ideas and behaviors and introducing them in all major U.S. and Western European cities.

The term achieved shades of political meaning when San Francisco Bay Area Flower Children gathered in Berkeley, California, in April 1969 to participate in the planting of flowers, shrubs, grass and trees during the building of People's Park. After authorities destroyed People's Park and installed an 8' tall chain-link wire fence around its perimeter, planting flowers became a symbol of peaceful resistance. One of the most famous photos from the 1960s is of a young girl sliding a flower down the muzzle of a bayonetted rifle wielded by a National Guardsman assigned to guard People's Park on May 30, 1969.

In the singular, the term flower child was later appropriated to mean Generation X children who have been raised by hippie parents, whether the child was a hippie or not: as of the 1990s flower child could refer to any child brought up in a hippie-like household or having a notably hippie name. People having unusual names such as Cree Summer, Moon Unit, Rainbow Sun, Star, Sunshine or other similar names might be referred to as flower children, regardless of their politics, parentage, or cultural background.

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hippie subculture was a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread around the world. The word "hippie" derives from word "hipster", and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
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City and County of San Francisco
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Nickname: The City, The City by the Bay, San Fran, Frisco,[1] Baghdad by the Bay[2]
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The Summer of Love was the summer of 1967, particularly in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where thousands of young people loosely and freely united for a new social experience. As a result, the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.
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Love is an intense feeling of affection related to a sense of strong loyalty or profound oneness.[] The meaning of love varies relative to context.
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Scott McKenzie (born Philip Blondheim, January 10 1939, in Jacksonville, Florida is a singer best known for his 1967 hit single and generational anthem "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)".
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A song is a relatively short musical composition. Songs contain vocal parts that are performed with the human voice and generally feature words (lyrics), commonly accompanied by other musical instruments (exceptions would be a cappella and scat songs).
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Released 1967 (United Kingdom)
Format 7 inch vinyl
Genre Pop
Label Columbia Records
Writer(s) John Phillips
Peak chart positions
  • #1 (United Kingdom)
    *#4 (U.S.

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John Phillips, born John Edmund Andrew Phillips (August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001), was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas.
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City and County of San Francisco
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Nickname: The City, The City by the Bay, San Fran, Frisco,[1] Baghdad by the Bay[2]
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The Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, USA named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets, commonly known as The Haight. The Haight-Ashbury
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City of Berkeley, California
Berkeley looking northwest as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve.
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San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay, is a geographically and ethnically diverse metropolitan region that surrounds the San Francisco Bay in Northern California.
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The Summer of Love was the summer of 1967, particularly in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where thousands of young people loosely and freely united for a new social experience. As a result, the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.
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The counterculture of the 1960s was a social revolution between the period of 1960 and 1973[1] that began in the United States as a reaction against the conservative social norms of the 1950s, the political conservatism (and perceived social repression) of the Cold War
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People's Park in Berkeley, California, USA is a park off Telegraph Avenue, bounded by Haste and Bowditch Streets and Dwight Way, near the University of California, Berkeley. The park was created during the radical political activism of the late 1960s.
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United States National Guard is a reserve forces component of the United States Army (the Army National Guard) and the United States Air Force (the Air National Guard). Both are maintained through the National Guard Bureau, a semi-independent subordinate entity of the United States
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May 30 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Generation X is a term used to describe generations in many countries around the world. The exact demographic boundaries of Generation X are not well defined, depending on who is using the term, where and when.
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child (plural: children) is primarily a boy or girl who has not reached puberty.[1][2] However, some youth reach puberty earlier or later than expected.
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parent is a father or mother; one who sires or gives birth to and/or nurtures and raises an offspring. The different role of parents varies throughout the tree of life, and is especially complex in human culture.
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Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown, an American child born in 2007.
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Cree Summer

Birth name Cree Summer Francks
Born July 7 1969 (1969--) (age 38)
Los Angeles, California
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Moon Unit Zappa (born September 28 1967, New York City) is the eldest child of American rock star Frank Zappa and Gail Sloatman; she goes by the name Moon Zappa.
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Rainbow Sun Francks

Born November 3 1979 (1979--) (age 29)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rainbow Sun Francks
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Star Parker (b. 1956) is an American author. Parker is also an advocate and spokesperson for conservative causes.

Parker, an African American woman, spent her formative years as an unemployed mother receiving welfare; she had a criminal record and has disclosed that she had
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Sunshine Anderson is an African-American R&B singer.

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Sunshine Anderson was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, but later moved to Charlotte as a child.
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