ERA OF ACTIVISM by Jackie Buck

By jab413
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    ERA OF ACTIVISM

  • Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

    Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on 27 September 1962. The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.

  • Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique

    Is a nonfiction book written by Betty Friedan. It is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.
    In 1957, Friedan was asked to conduct a survey of her former Smith College classmates for their 15th anniversary reunion; the results, in which she found that many of them were unhappy with their lives as housewives, prompted her to begin research for The Feminine Mystique, conducting interviews with other suburban housewives, as well as researching ps

  • Congress passes the Clean Air Act

    Law passed in 1970 that aimed to control pollution caused by industrial and auto emissions. To control air pollution on a national level. It requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the general public from exposure to airborne contaminants that are known to be hazardous to human health.

  • Publication of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed

    Published in 1965, is a book detailing resistance by car manufacturers to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety. It was a pioneering work, openly polemical but containing substantial references and material from industry insiders. It made Nader a household name.

  • NOW is founded

    Is the largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

  • UFW’s Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms

    Is a labor union created from the merging of two groups, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by Filipino organizer Larry Itliong, and the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez. This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance to that of a union of farmworkers almost overnight.

  • Protesters from the AIM take over the reservation at wounded Knee

    Organization formed in 1968 to help Native Americans

  • Woodstock

    1969 music festival in upstate New York It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha, 0.94 mi²) dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County.

  • First Earth Day celebration

    Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. While this first Earth Day was focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations.

  • The EPA is established

    Government organization formed in 1970 to set and enforce national pollution-control standards.

  • Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in the Roe v. Wade case

    It was a landmark, controversial decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. The Court decided that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests for regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting the mother's health.