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ERA OF ACTIVISM

By marie_skierka@yahoo.com
  • • Protesters from the AIM take over the reservation at Wounded Knee

    • Protesters from the AIM take over the reservation at Wounded Knee

    about 100 Indian protesters took over the Portland offices of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a federal agency that markets power produced by federal dams in the Pacific Northwest.
  • • Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

    • Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

    Writer and activist Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring. A book about DDT and it possible. the book was writen as a febal but caused the restriction on DDT.
  • • Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique

    • Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique

    The book addressed the women who had everything that society said they should want, but were not happy. She is often called the mother of Feminism and this book pushed it all forward.

  • • Publication of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed

    The book critcized American auto industry for its unsafe products and attacked GM.
  • • NOW is founded

    • NOW is founded

    National Organization for Woman started by 28 professional women including Betty Friedan. They were frustrated that existing womens groups were unwilling to pressure the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to take womens grievances more seriously.
  • UFW’s Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms

    UFW’s Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms

    The UFW's first target was the grape growers of California. Chávez, like Martin Luther King, Jr., believed in nonviolent action. In 1967, when growers refused to grant more pay, better working conditions, and union recognition, boycotts of lettuce and other crops also winning consumer support across America. Chávez organized a successful nationwide consumer boycott of grapes picked on non-union farms.
  • • Woodstock

    • Woodstock

    The Woodstock Music and Art Festival held in the town of Bethel, New York, 40 miles from the town of Woodstock. It was held in a feild, on a hill.
  • • First Earth Day celebration

    • First Earth Day celebration

    is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970.
  • • The EPA is established

    • The EPA is established

    President Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency by combinding existing federal agencies concerned with the air and water pollution.

  • • Congress passes the Clean Air Act

    It was passed in respones to public concern about air pollution. It was designed to ragulate industry and car emissions.
  • • Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in the Roe v. Wade case

    • Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in the Roe v. Wade case

    Land mark case on the issue of abortion. The court ruled that it is legal to abort a baby 3months and earlier. It is a womans right to her body.