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Publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Environmental activist, Rachel Carson, wrote the book "Silent Spring" to raise awareness of the disastrous affects that the chemical DDT has on the environment. -
Publication of Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique described the widespread unhappiness of women in the 1950s and early 1960s. It discusses the lives of several housewives from around the United States who were unhappy despite living in material comfort and being married with children. -
Congress passes the Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It requires the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants known to be hazardous to human health. -
UFW's Nationwide Boycott of grape picked on nonunion farms
The Delano Grape Strike was a strike, boycott, and secondary boycott led by the United Farm Workers (UFW) against growers of table grapes in California. The strike began on September 8, 1965, and lasted more than five years. The strike was significant victory for the UFW, leading to a first contract with these growers. -
Publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed
Ralph Nader, published in 1965, is a book accusing car manufacturers of resistance to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety. -
NOW is founded
NOW was founded on June 30, 1966, in Washington, D.C., by 28 people. The goal of NOW was "to take action to bring American women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now" -
Woodstock
Woodstock was a music festival. It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. It was remarkable how nearly 400,000 people were their yet there was very little violence. This concert provided counterculture a means to experiment with drugs and sexes -
First Earth Day Celebration
As poulltion increased in the United States the worry of a flithy Earth was on everyones mind. On April 22, 1970 the first Earth Day was created. It is a global event in which people come to together to plant trees, and other plant life. They clean up junk and trash from places like beaches, parks, streets, and neighborhoods. It was created in 1970 and contiunes today in 2014. -
The EPA is established
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the U.S. federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA was proposed by President Richard Nixon and began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. -
Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in the Roe v. Wade case
Roe v. Wade is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. It invovled Jane Roe and Henry Wade. The Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion -
Protesters from the AIM take over the reservation at Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee incident began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Oglala and AIM activists controlled the town for 71 days while the United States Marshals Service, FBI agents, and other law enforcement agencies cordoned off the area. The activists chose the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre for its symbolic value. Both side
