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Olga Owens Huckins write a letter to her friend Rachel Carson. Aaiplane sprayed Huckkins neighborhood with DDT o contol mosquitoes an d the next day she found dead bird in her yard. She ask Rachal Carson a biologist to like into this matter the result was her book Silent Spring.
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The dissatisfied housewives that Friedandescribed in her book began meeting, too, discuss their lives and their role in society.
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Nader's called many cars " coffins on wheela". He wrote automobles brought deat, injurys to people. In 1966 Congress passed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act.
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A group of 28 professional women including Betty Friedan establshed the Natioonal Organization for women. The goal of NOW was '" to take action to bring American women into full participationin the mainstream of American society now".
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The diverse strand of the hippis all came together at a festival of music called Woodstock. THe people gather to listen to the major bands of rock the world.
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Sentor Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announed plans ot hold a national day of discussion and teaching of the environment. Earth Day became a yearly event after that. Its aim was to heighten the awareness of the environment issues and to clean up pollution and litter.
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When growers refused to grant more pay, better working condition, and recognition. Chavez organized a successful nationwide boycott of grape picked on nonunion farms.
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Environmental activist sppur the federal government to create a new agency that would set and enforce national pollution-control standards President Nixon established the EPA.
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The justices based their decision on the constitutional right to personal privacy and struck down state regulation of abortion in the fisrt three months.
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AIM leader directed the take over of the villageand refuse to leave until the Unied States government agreed to investigate the treatment of Indians and the poor conditions on the reservation.
