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 * //Back to 1960's//**
 * //Flower Power: Who coined the phrase?//**

Historians theorize that Allen Ginsburg -- leader of the Beat movement, poet, anti-war activist, award winning author and buddhist -- is widely credited with coining the phrase, "Flower Power." Though associated with drug use, he is best remembered for encouraging people of his generation to use non-violent methods of protest. Hippies, or Flower Children, believed that the "Power of Love" would win out over violence and hate.

From Wikipedia:

In April 1969, the building of People's Park in Berkeley, California received international attention. The University of California, Berkeley had demolished all the buildings on a 2.8 acre parcel near campus, intending to use the land to build playing fields and a parking lot. After a long delay, during which the site became a dangerous eyesore, thousands of ordinary Berkeley citizens, merchants, students, and hippies took matters into their own hands, planting trees, shrubs, flowers and grass to convert the land into a park. A major confrontation ensued on May 15, 1969, and Governor Ronald Reagan ordered a two-week occupation of the city of Berkeley by the United States National Guard. Flower power came into its own during this occupation as hippies engaged in acts of civil disobedience to plant flowers in empty lots all over Berkeley under the slogan "Let A Thousand Parks Bloom."

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