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Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement. When the book Silent Spring was published, Rachel Carson was already a well-known writer on natural history, but had not previously been a social critic. The book was widely read—especially after its selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the New York Times best-seller list—and inspired widespread public concerns with pesticides and pollution of the environment. Silent Spring facilitated the ban of the pesticide DDT -
Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique
The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique is often cited as the founding moment of second-wave feminism. The book highlighted Friedan's view of a coercive and pervasive post-World War II ideology of female domesticity that stifled middle-class women's opportunities to be anything but homemakers. -
Publication of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed
This book warned the American public of how dangerous some automobiles that were being sold and manufactured, -
NOW is founded
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. NOW's priority issues concern U.S. domestic policy. The six core issues that NOW addresses are abortion rights/reproductive issues, violence against women, constitutional equality, promoting diversity/ending racism, lesbian rights, and economic justice. -
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. Later boycotts of lettuce and other crops also won consumer support across the country. -
Woodstock
Woodstock Festival was a peaceful festival where rock music was played and cops chose not to do anything about people using drugs. -
First Earth Day Celebration
Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year. April 22 corresponds to spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Numerous communities celebrate Earth Week. a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. -
The EPA is established
EPA was established to consolidate in one agency a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection. EPA's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment—air, water, and land—upon which life depends. For more than 30 years, the EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.
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Congress Passes the Clean Air Act
Act that has the EPA make sure certain requirements are meant in the air. -
Roe v. Wade Case
Roe v. Wade is the historic Supreme Court decision overturning a Texas interpretation of abortion law and making abortion legal in the United States. The Roe v. Wade decision held that a woman, with her doctor, could choose abortion in earlier months of pregnancy without restriction, and with restrictions in later months, based on the right to privacy. -
Protesters from the AIM take over the reservation at wounded Knee
Protesters take of the reservation until the government reviews the massacre and treaties.
