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DETAILS: Early Hippie counterculture pinback button issued by the Big Little Store promoting political activist Tim Leary and the use of LSD. Reads: \"Melts In Your Mind, Not In Your Hands\" along with psychedelic art.The Big Little Store located in San Francisco, not far from Haight-Ashbury, was an infamous head shop affiliated with the Brotherhood of Eternal Love (The Hippie Mafia). They were notorious for dealing in all things counterculture and drug related during the Hippie movement.
BIOGRAPHY: Timothy Leary (1920-1996) was a prominent member of theradical left movement in the United States.Starting in the 1960\'s, whileteaching at Harvard University, he conducted extensive research on behalf of the US Government on the effects of LSD and psilocybin drugs on humans. However when he began advocating the benefits of psychedelic substances, he was persecuted by the Federal Government. In 1968 President Richard Nixon described Leary as \"the most dangerous man in America\". Having been arrested 29 times he spent much of the 1960s and 1970s on the run from US law enforcement. In 1970 he was able to escape from prison with the help of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love (The Hippie Mafia) and the Weatherman Underground Organization (WUO). He fled to Algeria and joinedBlack Panther Party members in exile.
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LEFT WING POLITICAL GROUPS
Circa 1950-1979
Oxxbridge Galleries was founded in 1987 and specializes in vintage paper items with a particularfocus on counter culture and progressive left wing materials.We are one of the few retailers in the country that regularly deals in suchpolitical groups. We are always adding to our online inventory. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us. You will be pleased by the friendliness and knowledge of our staff.
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