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Publication of Rachel Carson's silent spring
Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962. The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement. -
Publication of Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique is a 1963 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. -
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. -
Publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at any speed
Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile by 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
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is a feminist organization founded in 1966. It has a membership of 550,000. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. -
Woodstock
A peaceful concert with more that 400,000 people who came to see -
First earth day celebration
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. -
UFW's Nationwide boycott of grapes
The Salad Bowl strike was a series of strikes, mass pickets, boycotts and secondary boycotts that began on August 23, 1970 and led to the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history. -
The epa is established
The United States Environmental Protection Agency[2] (EPA or sometimes USEPA) 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
The supreme court rules legalizes abortion -
Protesters from the AIM take over the reservaion 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
