In the US, why did anti-authoritarian sentiment grow only in the 1960s?
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It helps to put the events in the context of the time in which they happened. Judging past events by current cultural norms paints a very false picture.
There have been anti-authoritarian movements in the US before the 1960's.
Given that they went against the prevailing authority, the early US labor movement beginning with the Haymarket Affair in 1886 were decidedly anti-authoritarian, widespread, and resulted in quite a bit of violent confrontations that continued for decades, until the unions were finally recognized by federal law.
The US Civil War was an attempt by several states to throw off the authority of the federal government.
And before that, an anti-authoritarian movement began around 1776, engaging in considerable violation of existing laws, that actually did prevail over the resident British authority.
Arguably, the document that emerged from that movement, the US Constitution, is somewhat anti-authoritarian in nature, especially when viewed in the context of other such documents in western nations of that time. A good deal of the Constitution limits federal powers, which was at that time a fairly new concept.
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