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Silent Spring's publication by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring; written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin is a book widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement. It inspired widespread public concerns with pesticides and pollution of the environment. Silent Spring facilitated the ban of the pesticide DDT for agricultural use in 1972 in the United States. -
Publicatgion of Betty Friedan's Mystique
The Feminine Mystique is a book by Betty Friedan which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. -
Ralph Nader
Unsafe at Any Speed: is 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. It was a pioneering work, openly polemical but containing substantial references and material from industry insiders -
NOW is founded
With about a membership of 500,000 people. NOW consisted of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The National Organization for Women or NOW is the largest feminist organization US. -
UFW goes on strike
Also known as the Delano Grape Strike it was led by the United Farm Workers,or the UFW, against growers of table grapes in California. It lasted more than five years. -
Congress passes the Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act is the federal law designed to make sure that all Americans have air that is safe to breathe. Public health protection is the primary goal, though the law also seeks to protect our environment from damage caused by air pollution. -
First Earth Day
Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin believed that we only have one earth, so we need to take care of her. He was disturbed that an issue as important as our environment was not addressed in politics or by the media, so he created the first Earth Day. About 20 million people nationwide attended. Earth Day became the first opportunity people had to join in a nationwide demonstration to send a big message to public officials to protect our planet. -
The EPA is stablished
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the U.S. federal government that was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress -
Roe V Wade Case legalization
A court decision to make it a right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests for regulating abortions -
Protesters from AIM take over
When about 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of AIM(American Indian Movement) stopped and occupied the town of Wounded Knee.
