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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the Beginning of the Environmental
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by Ralph Nader, published in 1965, is a book detailing resistance by car manufacturers to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety.
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the largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members
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A leading figure in the Women's Movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the "second wave" of American feminism in the twentieth century. In 1966
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is the largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members.
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was a series of strikes, mass pickets, boycotts, and secondary boycotts which began August 23, 1970, and led to the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history.
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was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music"
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Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment.
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is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress
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Native American activist organization in the United States. In October 1973 the American Indian Movement gathered its forces from across the country onto the Trail of Broken Treaties
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was a landmark, controversial decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion
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act dealt with reducing air pollution by setting emissions standards
