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Environmental Movement
Oil Slick is Shroud for Birds” (Washington Post) Oil pollution at sea is a serious issue. Oil tankers at sea, “the dumping of old crankcase oil and the pumping of oily water from bilges” are major causes of the oil pollution. The most widespread cause of death among sea birds is from oil. Insulating air pockets are destroyed which is s a cause of drowning. The seriousness of this issue has been recognized.. Whilte it is illegal to dump oil within 50 miles of a coastline, ships continue to do -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was set inplace because of all the raceism, discrimination, and unequality of not just blacks(African-Americans) but also the Native Americans and women. The act made it possible for them to vote and register for jobs. -
Migrant Workers
At the end of the Vietnam War, thousands of refugees migrated from southeast Asia to the U.S., in what became the first of several waves of Asian refugees seeking political asylum. Critics have argued that the U.S. immigration service began to selectively employ political asylum refugee status in a way that was racially biased. -
Feminist Movment
In 1966 American women organized NOW (National Organization for Women). NOW took real action toward fighting for women’s rights. In August 1967 members from NOW protested in vintage clothing against the ads of The New York Time, which were separated by gender. A couple months later NOW, held a demonstration that attacked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission because of the guidelines they issued to approve an advertisement -
Anti-Vietnam
On May 6, 1970, a call for a general strike to support the antiwar movement at the University of Oklahoma brought out several hundred protesters, one of whom unfurled a Vietcong flag and was arrested under an Oklahoma state law forbidding the display of a procommunist flag. This incident led to an angry clash between students and "two busloads" of police and thirty-five Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers
