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Publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Silent Spring told of the side effects pesticides had on the environment. The book maily focused on the effects on the bird poopulation. She accused th chemical industry of giving out false information and public officials accepting it. It helped launch the environmental movement. -
Publication of Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan surveyed her former classmates and found out that many didn't like their role as a housewife. The results made her want to do research for Feminine Mystique. She had interveiws with houswives and researched media, psychology, and advertising. She didn't plan on writing a book. It was supposed to be an article but no magazine would publish it. -
UFW's nationwide boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farm
The strike began when the Agricultural Workers Organizing Commitee walked off of farms in California. they refused to work unless they got paid the federal minum wage. A week later the National Farmworkers Association joined the strike. The two groups jioned together and formed the United Farm Workers of America. The strike lasted over 5 years and by 1970 they reached a collective bargaining agreement. -
Publication of Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed
In his book, Ralph Nader accused car manufactorers of not wanted to spend money to make their cars safer. The response to Unsafe at Any Speed led Congress to pass the Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966. -
NOW is founded
The National Organization for Women was founded to help fight for womens rights and to bring women into mainstream society. Th founders were Betty Friedan (NOW's first president), Pauli Murray ( the first African-American female Episcopal priest), and Shirley Chisholm (the first Black woman to run for President). -
Woodstock
Woodstock was help at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in New York. It was meant to be a 2 day festival for only 200,000 people who paid. Over 400,000 showed up so they took the fence down and made it a free event. It lasted more than the 2 days that were expected. More than 32 popular artists performed over the course of the fesival. Conditions were terrible due to food shortages, rain that made it muddy, and other things. -
First Earth Day Celebrated
Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin wanted people to take care of the environment so he created a day to discuss and teach people ways to help. Earth Day is now celebrated globally in over 192 countries. -
The EPA is established
The Environmental Protection Agency was established to protect human health and the envirnoment. They conduct research, assessment, adn educate people on ways to help the environment. They also work to maintain nationwide standards and work with idustries and the government in pollution prevention and engery conservation programs. -
Supreme Court rules to legalze abortion in Roe v. Wade case
The ruling allowed abortions throughout the entire pregnancy but the state had to follow certain conditions to abort in the second and third trimester. It was justified under that ninth and fourteenth amendments. -
Protesters from AIM take over the reservation at Wounded Knee
Followers of the American Indian Movement took over Wounded Knee, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in protest. They wanted the US governament to fullfil the treaties that were previously made with Indian people and wanted to nogiate them again. Law enforcement agencies closed off the area during the 71 days that AIM occupied it. Shots were constantly being fired from both sides.
