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Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Miss Carson's intent in writing Silent Spring was to warn the public of the dangers associated with pesticide use. Throughout her book are numerous case studies documenting the harmful effects that chemical pesticides have had on the environment. Along with these facts, she explains how in many instances the pesticides have done more harm than good in eradicating the pests they were designed to destroy. -
Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique
The book addressed the women who had everything that society said they should want which were husbands who were good providers, healthy children, and a house in the suburbs.But many of these women were not happy, and when they said so, they were often called it not normal. -
Publication of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed
Nader protested the spraying of campus trees with DDT. His interest in automobile safety began while he was attending Harvard Law School.The government report Nader wrote developed into a book, Unsafe at Any Speed published the next year. -
NOW is founded
It was created by 28 women and men attending the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women.It had been three years since the Commission reported findings of women being discriminated against. -
UFW’s Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms
The UFW's first target was the grape growers of California. Chávez, like Martin Luther King, Jr., believed in nonviolent action. In 1967, when growers refused to grant more pay, better working conditions, and union recognition, Chávez organized a successful nationwide consumer boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms. -
Woodstock
The diverse strands of the counterculture all came together at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969. There were about 400,000 people gathered for several days in a large pasture in New York, to listen to the major bands of the rock world. -
Congress passes the Clean Air Act
IT was a response to public concerns about air pollution, the Clean Air Act was designed to control the pollution caused by industries and car emissions.The EPA forged an agreement with car manufacturers to install catalytic converters ( in cars to reduce harmful emissions. -
First Earth Day celebration
the idea for Earth Day evolved over a period of seven years starting in 1962. For several years, it had been troubling me that the state of our environment was simply a non-issue in the politics of the country. The idea was to persuade President Kennedy to give visibility to this issue by going on a national conservation tour -
The EPA is established
This was passed by Congress in 1970 in response to public concerns about air pollution.The Clean Air Act was designed to control the pollution caused by industries and car emissions. The EPA forged an agreement with car manufacturers to install catalytic converters in cars to reduce harmful emissions. -
Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in the Roe v. Wade case
Roe v. Wade, was a landmark, controversial decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. The right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests for regulating abortions. It was helping to protect prenatal life and the helth of the mother. -
Protesters from the AIM take over the reservation at Wounded Knee
In 1890, the army's Seventh Cavalry had massacred more than 200 Sioux men, women, and children there. The Pine Ridge reservation around the village was one of the country's poorest, with half of its families living on welfare. AIM took over the village and would not leave the U.S government investigated.
