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Publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Springs
Silent Spring facilitated the ban of the pesticide DDT for agricultural use in 1972 in the United States.The book documented detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, particularly on birds. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting industry claims uncritically. -
Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique
In her book, Friedan discussed her discovery of a problem that had formed within post-World War II society that she called, "the problem that has no name." She was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world."American society should enjoy the benefits provided by the new, modern, time-saving appliances and thus make their role in society exclusively based on maintaining their home, pleasing their husbands, and raising their children. -
UFW's Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms
strike and boycott of table grapes. Led by Cesar Chavez -
NOW is founded
The first meetings where held in Washington D.C. with a group of 29 women. They wanted to form a group that would hopfully change societies mind to give women there full equal rights. -
Woodstock
It was a music festival, billed as 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York. -
First Celebration Earth Day
Earth Day marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. The idea came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California was moved to pass holiday called Earth Day. -
The EPA is established
Since its inception, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people. -
Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in the Roe v. Wade case
Norma McCorvey ("Jane Roe") filed a lawsuit claiming that a Texas law criminalizing most abortions violated her constitutional rights.Roe v. Wade (1973) ruled unconstitutional a state law that banned abortions except to save the life of the mother. The Court ruled that the states were forbidden from outlawing or regulating any aspect of abortion performed during the first trimester of pregnancy. -
Protesters from the AIM take over the reservation at Wounded Knee
200 members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) occupy the tiny hamlet of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
