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Publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement. -
Pblican of Betty Friendan's feminie mystique
Begins with an introduction describing what Friedan called "the problem that has no name"—the widespread unhappiness of women in the 1950s and early 1960s. It discusses the lives of several housewives from around the United States who were unhappy despite living in material comfort and being married with children.[5] -
Congress passes 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. -
Publication of ralph nader's 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. It made Nader a household name. -
Now is Founded
feminist is a organization founded in 1966. It has a membership of 550,000. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. -
Woodstock
Is a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". -
First Earth Day celebration
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. -
UFW's Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms
Was a series of strikes, mass pickets, boycotts and secondary boycotts that began on August 23, 1970 and led to the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history. -
The EPA Is established
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 vs. Wade case
Do women have a right to make their own decisions about pregnancy and birth, even including having an abortion if they want one, or does the government have the power to interfere with such decisions. -
Protesters from AIM take over the reservation at wounded knee
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.
