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Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
A women in Massachusetts wrote a letter to a friend and set off a revolution. The letter writer was Olga Owens Huckins, and the friend was Rachel Carson. An airplane had sprayed Huckins' neighborhood with DDT to control mosquitoes, and the next day she found dead birds in her yard. She asked Carson who is a biologist to look into the connection. -
Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique
Betty's book caused a sensation in the suburbs of America. Her book addressed the women who had everything that society said they should want: husbands who were good providers, heathly children, a house in the suburbs-often even the time and money to futnish and refurnish the comfortable homes they ran for their familes. But the twist of her story is that many of the women were not happ, and when they said so they were often called "neurotic" or not normal. -
Publication of Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed
Unsafe at Any Speed is a book detailing resistance by car manufacturers 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
In 1966 a group of 28 professional women including Betty Friedan established the National Organization for Women which is bettet know as NOW. -
UFW’s Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms
The United Farm Workers of America is a labor union created from the merging of two groups, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. -
Woodstock
Woodstock is when the diverse strands of the countercluture all came together at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, and about 400,000 people had grthered for several days in a lagre pasture in Bethel, New York to listen to the major bands of the rock word. -
The EPA is established
The EPA is the Environmental Protection Agency which was created as an independent frderal agency to administer the laws that affect the enironment. -
First Earth Day celebration
Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. While this first Earth Day was focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations.[1][2] Earth Day is now coordinated globally by t -
Congress passes the Clean Air Act
The clean air act established regulations for preventing urban and industrial water pollution. -
Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in the Roe v. Wade case
Roe v. Wade is a landmark social and legal change which came in 1973 when the Supreme Court legalized abortion in the controversial Roe. v Wade decision. -
Protesters from the AIM take over the reservation at wounded Knee
In 1973, a dramtic confrontation at Oglala Sioux village of Wounded knee, South Dakota.
