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  Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962. The book Silent Spring is about widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement.
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  The Feminine Mystique is a 1963 book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States.
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  Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile by Ralph Nader, published in 1965.
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  The National Organization for Women (NOW) is a feminist organization founded in 1966.
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  Woodstock was an Music and Art fair. Founded in August 15 1969
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  Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection.