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Rachel Carson holds her controversial book Silent
Spring, which charges that pesticides are destroying
wildlife and endangering humanity. |
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Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm of New York City answers
questions during a news conference. |
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Blues and rock singer Janis Joplin performs with her band,
Big Brother and the Holding Company, in 1968. |
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Audrey Hepburn is a beloved movie star of her day, starring
in 1960s classics such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s
and My Fair Lady. |
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Betty Friedan, who helped found the National Organization
for Women, urges women “to do something to visibly
protest the discrimination against women.” |
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• Eleanor
Roosevelt chairs President John F. Kennedy Jr.’s
Commission on the Status of Women.
• Wilma
Rudolph sets a new world record in the 100-meter dash. |
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• Ecologist
Rachel
Carson’s book Silent Spring inspires the
environmental movement.
• The
Cuban missile crisis occurs. The U.S.S.R. withdraws
its missiles from Cuba. |
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• Civil
rights protesters march in Washington, D.C. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a
Dream” speech.
• President John
F. Kennedy Jr. is assassinated.
• Betty
Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique is
published, launching the modern women’s movement
in the United States.
• Congress passes the Equal
Pay Act, the first federal law prohibiting sexual
discrimination. |
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• The Civil
Rights Act is passed, banning discrimination on the
basis of color, race, national origin, religion, or sex. |
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• More than 200,000
American troops are stationed in Vietnam
as opposition to the war mounts in the United States. |
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• Betty Friedan and
others found the National
Organization for Women (NOW) to ensure equal rights
for women. |
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• Muriel
Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the
New York Stock Exchange |
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• Shirley
Chisholm of New York City becomes the first African
American woman elected to Congress.
• Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. |
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• The United
States lands the first
man on the moon.
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