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Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique
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 -
Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist and who wrote a book called Silent Spring and this book was just in detailed with advancing the global environmental movement. -
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. -
Ralph Nader Unsafe at Any Speed
This 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. -
NOW is founded
The National Organization for Women is a feminist organization founded in 1966. It has a membership of 550,000. -
UFW’s Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms
The UFW strikes Giumarra Vineyards Corp, California's largest table grape grower. In response to a UFW boycott, other table grape growers allow Giumarra to use their labels. -
Woodstock
was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & -
First Earth Day
Earth Day marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. -
The EPA is established
The government founded the United States Environmental Protection Agency. -
Roe v. Wade Case
Roe v. Wade,is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. -
Protesters from AIM take over the Reservation at Wounded Knee
About 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.
