March on washington for jobs and freedom martin luther king jr. and joachim prinz 1963

Era of Activism-Crown

By ReeseC35

  • Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

    Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
    The book documented detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, particularly on birds. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting industry claims uncritically.

  • Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique

    Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique
    "The problem that has no name"—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.

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

    UFW’s Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms
    UFW was on the verge of winning its four years old Delano grape strike.UFW believed that success over the Delano grape growers would lead hundreds of growers to recognize the union and negotiate contracts with the union.

  • Publication of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed

    Publication of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed
    Unsafe at Any Speed is often characterized as the book "about the Corvair", though only one of the book's eight chapters covers the Corvair. The theme of tire pressures chosen for comfort rather than safety is recurrent, and the main theme throughout is the charge that the automobile industry evaded well-founded and technically informed criticism

  • 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 organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

  • Woodstock

    Woodstock
    Was a gathering of hippies from everywhere to a concert in New York. There was large drug use and no-one stopped it.

  • First Earth Day celebration

    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. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year.

  • The EPA is established( December 2nd 1970)

    The EPA is established( December 2nd 1970)
    The United States Environmental Protection Agency 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 in the Roe v. Wade case January

    Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in the Roe v. Wade case January
    Started in 1970 and took three year to come to a descision. Legalized abortion.

  • 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.