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Author, Silent Spring
her work is widely credited as marking the beginning of the modern environmentalist movement in the 1960s and 1970s
Modern Environmental Movement.
- Sierra Club, founded to preserve forests, alert people of water contamination, air pollution, lead in paint, etc, |
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1962 the other america.
Significance: revealed that 40-50 million americans lived in poverty, often in rural areas or urban slums "invisible to the middle class." made known that whites were a majority of the poor. war on poverty. |
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1942-64: An agreement between Mexico and American to allow thousands of Mexicans to work temporarily. Mexicans called Braceros so they could be deported back after work was over.
Program was supposed to give them fair wages and working conditions and decent housing, but since they could be deported at anytime they found it almost impossible to form unions or secure better working conditions |
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| Outlawed racial and sexual discrimination in public accomodations and employment |
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| The Warren Court & the Living Constitution |
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Supreme Court in the 50's and 60's led by Earl Warren.
Key Decisions:
Brown V Board, Loving vs Virginia (interracial marriage), Griswold V Connecticut (use of contraceptives, right to privacy), Miranda v Arizona (police to advise persons in custody of their legal rights) |
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LBJ's response to the NEw Deal. Plan to assist the the poor, provided medicare and medicaid. created new agencies. funded education and urban development. eradicate poverty.
Significance: response to prosperity not depression. Mid 60's were a time of rapid econ expansion, fueled by increased gov't spending and tax cut on individuals initially proposed by Kennedy. Civil Rights undermined the equality and affluence of American life. Vietnam War undermined the view that fighting international communism was the country's top priority. |
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| Federally enforced voting rights amongst minorities as well as whites. |
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| National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) |
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| The organization had four goals: adequate income, dignity, justice, and democratic participation. The group was active from 1966 to 1975. At its peak in 1969, NWRO membership was estimated at 25,000 members (mostly African American women). Thousands more joined in NWRO protests |
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The new left wing idealology separating from the old left.
Tom hayden lead the protest movement to distinguish it. Focuses more on lonliness and alienation issues rather than labor issues.
NEW LEFT Wanted:
Equality and RIghts over law and order
personal freedom over community control
federal power crucial in promoting and enforcing social and economic justice |
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