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The Great Sanitation Survey
The Drown and Richards' sanitary survey was the beginning of the world's first water purity tables, established the first state water quality standards in the United States, and resulted in the world's modern sewage treatment testing laboratory. -
The Rumford Kitchen
The exhibit intended to present a state of knowledge about the makeup of materials for human food, the means of making these materials available for nutrition, and the quantities for a working ration. It was also in part intended as a centennial celebration of the services to humanity of a man in Massachusetts, Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, the first to apply the term "science of nutrition" to the study of human food, and the first to apply science to the preparation of food materials. -
American Home Economics Association Established
Founded by Ellen Swallow Richards, "to improve the quality and standards of individual and family life through education, research, cooperative programs, and public information". -
The Fair Housing Act
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 was a follow up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex. -
AHEA becoming Family and Consumer Science
AAFCS today is a comprehensive body of skills, research, and knowledge that helps people make informed decisions about their well-being, relationships, and resources to achieve optimal quality of life. Along with areas of personal finance, nutrition, parenting and childcare, interpersonal relationships, family systems, career exploration and preparation, family resource management, design and merchandising, interior design, the apparel industry, and environmentally responsible construction.