The digital exhibition reconsiders counterculture as a medium that encompasses both academics and activists as pioneers of post war and beat culture. Through a collection from the Rose Library at Emory University, especially the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, this exhibit presents a new definition of the term “counterculture” itself and shows many Beat and countercultural icons as influential to the entire movement.

Pay off: nonconformist attitudes of the beat generation; the influence of people beyond the usual “beats”; addresses beat mythology

Tags: names (Kerouac, Cassady, Ulewicz), beat women, women, counterculture, black panther, black, music, Joans, correspondence, letters, protest, enlightenment, poetry, activism, marginalized, religion, subculture