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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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The National Organization for Women is a feminist organization founded in 1966. It has a membership of 550,000.
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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.
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was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace &
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Earth Day marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
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The government founded the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
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Roe v. Wade,is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion.
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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.
