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Illustrative Timeline
A timeline of all of the interesting events around the Era of Activisms. -
Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962.The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement.[ -
The Feminie Mystique
Friedan was asked to conduct a survey in which she found that many of women were unhappy with their lives as housewives, prompted her to begin research for The Feminine Mystique, conducting interviews with other suburban housewives, as well as researching psychology, media, and advertising. -
Congress passes the Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level. It requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the public from airborne contaminants known to be hazardous to human health. -
UWF Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on non union farms
and secondary boycott led by the United Farm Workers (UFW) against growers of table grapes in California. -
Publication of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed
Publication of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed ia a book accusing car manufacturers of resistance to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety. -
Now is founded
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is a feminist organization founded in 1966. It has a membership of 550,000. -
Woodstock
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre. During the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of 400,000 young people. -
Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection -
The EPA is established
EPA is an agency of the U.S. federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.[ -
Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in the Roe v. Wade case
Roe v Wade is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Decided simultaneously with a companion case. -
Protesters from the AIM take over the reservation at Wounded Knee
Wounded knee was when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
