The Origins of Environmentalism in the USA

In this lecture, Prof. Patrick Allitt (Emory University)will examine how in the late 1960s environmentalism became a mass movement in the United States. This was a period of great citizen activism. The Civil Rights, anti-Vietnam-War and Women’s movements, all showed that public activism could have positive political effects. This coupled with growing concern about the indiscriminate use of pesticides and herbicides, worries about air pollution, and disasters involving the use of oil, led to the first “Earth Day,” (April 22, 1970). These were demonstrations nationwide on behalf of improved environmental stewardship and were the biggest demonstrations in US history.
This lecture is part of a larger course on The Environment and Natural Resources. The full course can be found here: massolit.io/courses/us-histor...
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