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Publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring to alert the concerns of pesticides and pollution within the enviorment. This book facilitated the ban of the pesticide DDT for agriculture use in 1972 in the United States. -
Publication of Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique
Durning this time women were stepping out of tradional roles. WWII sent women to work in facctories while men were gone so they got a taste of what work life was like. In Betty Friedan's book, the problem stemmed from the growing expectation that women in American society should enjoy the benefits provided by the new, modern, time-saving appliances and thus make their role in society exclusively based on maintaining their home, pleasing their husbands, and raising their children. -
Publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed
32-year-old lawyer Ralph Nader publishes Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile. His book popularized some harsh truths about cars and car companies that auto-safety advocates had known for some time. The book really focused on the features like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety -
NOW is Founded
The National Organization for Women was founded at Washington, DC, by people attending the Third National Conference on the Commission on the Status of Women. NOW’s purpose is to take action to bring women into full partnership in the mainstream of American society, exercising all privileges and responsibilities in equal partnership with men. -
UFW's Nationwide Boycott of Grapes Picked on Nonunion Farms
Filipino members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee joined forces with Latino members of the National Farm Workers Association to form the United Farm Workers (UFW). Together they pushed for contracts with powerful California growers. They came together and stopped picking grapes to show the farm owners to respect and pay them more. -
Woodstock
A three day event with many famous performances by Janis Joplin, Jimmi Hendrix, The Who, Sweetwater and so many more bands and artists. Located at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the town of Bethel (outside of White Lake, New York). This was a music festival for everyone to come together and just listen to the music. There were 50,000 approximatly that showed up and because of everyone was just walking in, there was no fee. At the festival, drug usage was revelent and is believed why it was peaceful. -
First Earth Day Celebration
Earth day is an annual event that demonstrates enviormental protection world wide. The idea came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution, it would force environmental protection onto the national political agenda. -
The EPA is Established
The United States Environmental Protection Agency was designed by the U.S. Federal Goverment. EPA was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The agency conducts environmental assessment, research, and education. It has the responsibility of maintaining and enforcing national standards under a variety of environmental laws, in consultation with state, tribal, and local governments. -
Supreme Court Rules to Legalize Abortion in Roe vs. Wade Case
Supreme Court made abortion a 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 legal restriction, and with restrictions in later months, based on the right to privacy. -
Protesters From the AIM Take Over the Reservation at Wounded Knee
A team of 200 Oglala Lakota (Sioux) activists and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized control of a tiny town, Wounded Knee. They arrived in town at night, in a caravan of cars and trucks, took the town's residents hostage, and demanded that the U.S. government make good on treaties from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Within hours, police had surrounded Wounded Knee, forming a cordon to prevent protesters from exiting and sympathizers from entering. This marked the beginning
