Reply #80: Here's a definition of 'counterculture' from a major textbook publisher

[muriel_volestrangler]

The term counterculture referred to various alternatives to mainstream values and behaviors that became popular in the 1960s. Among these were experimentation with psychedelic drugs, communal living, a return to the land, Asian religions, and experimental art.

http://www.ushistoryplace.com/glossary/c.html

So I would say they don't consider the civil rights movement part of that either.