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Chapter 30 Project – Illustrative Timeline
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Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Olga Owens Huckins write a letter to her friend Rachel Carson. Aaiplane sprayed Huckkins neighborhood with DDT o contol mosquitoes an d the next day she found dead bird in her yard. She ask Rachal Carson a biologist to like into this matter the result was her book Silent Spring. -
Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique
The dissatisfied housewives that Friedandescribed in her book began meeting, too, discuss their lives and their role in society. -
Publication of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed
Nader's called many cars " coffins on wheela". He wrote automobles brought deat, injurys to people. In 1966 Congress passed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. -
NOW is founded
A group of 28 professional women including Betty Friedan establshed the Natioonal Organization for women. The goal of NOW was '" to take action to bring American women into full participationin the mainstream of American society now". -
Woodstock
The diverse strand of the hippis all came together at a festival of music called Woodstock. THe people gather to listen to the major bands of rock the world. -
First Earth Day celebration
Sentor Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announed plans ot hold a national day of discussion and teaching of the environment. Earth Day became a yearly event after that. Its aim was to heighten the awareness of the environment issues and to clean up pollution and litter. -
UFW’s Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms
When growers refused to grant more pay, better working condition, and recognition. Chavez organized a successful nationwide boycott of grape picked on nonunion farms. -
The EPA is established
Environmental activist sppur the federal government to create a new agency that would set and enforce national pollution-control standards President Nixon established the EPA. -
Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in the Roe v. Wade case
The justices based their decision on the constitutional right to personal privacy and struck down state regulation of abortion in the fisrt three months. -
Protesters from the AIM take over the reservation at Wounded Knee
AIM leader directed the take over of the villageand refuse to leave until the Unied States government agreed to investigate the treatment of Indians and the poor conditions on the reservation.
