BOWMAN - ERA OF ACTIVISM

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    ERA OF ACTIVISM

  • Publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

    Publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
    Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson. The book documented detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, particularly on birds. The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement.

  • Congress passes the Clean Air Act

    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 (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants known to be hazardous to human health.

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

    UFW's Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms
    The Delano Grape Strike was a strike and 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

    Publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed
    Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader was published in 1965. The book accuses car manufacturers of resistance 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.

  • NOW is founded

    NOW is founded
    The National Organization for Women (NOW) is a feminist organization founded in 1966. It has a membership of 550,000.The six core issues that NOW addresses are abortion and reproductive health services access, violence against women, constitutional equality, promoting diversity/ending racism, lesbian rights, and economic justice.

  • Woodstock

    Woodstock
    The Woodstock Music & Art Fair 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.

  • First Earth Day celebration

    First Earth Day celebration
    Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announced plans to hold a national day of discussion and teaching about the environment. On April 22, 1970 Americans celebrated the first Earth Day. Organizers stressed the important role that Americans could play in improving environmental issues and in bringing an end to environmental damage.

  • The EPA is established

    The EPA is established
    The United States Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) 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.

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

    Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in the Roe v. Wade case
    Roe v. Wade was a decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. The Court issued its decision on January 22, 1973, with a 7-to-2 majority vote in favor of Roe. In this decision all laws attempting to restrict abortion were made unconstitutional.

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

    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 (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.