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1970s - Environmentalism. The seventies touched off a mainstream affirmation of the environmental issues early activists from the '60s, such as Rachel Carson, warned about. The moon landing that had occurred at the end of the previous decade transmitted back concrete images of the earth as an integrated, life-supporting system and shaped a public willingness to preserve nature. On April 22, 1970, the United States celebrated its first Earth Day in which over two thousand colleges and universities and roughly ten thousand p ...

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1970s - Social movements: Encyclopedia - Black Feminism

The current incarnation of Black Feminism is a political/social movement that grew out of a sense of feelings of discontent with both the Civil Rights Movement and the Feminist Movement of the 1970s. Not only did the Civil Rights Movement primarily focus only on the oppression of black men, but many black women faced severe sexism within Civil Rights groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The Feminist Movement focused on the problems faced by white women. For instance, earning the power to work outside of the home was ...

1970s - Social movements: Encyclopedia - American Civil Rights Movement 1896-1954

The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, both in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights it brought about and its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. It has been made up of many movements, though it most often refers to the struggles between 1945 and 1970 to end discrimination against African-American ...

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1970s - Social movements: Encyclopedia - Back to the land

Today, the phrase "back-to-the-land movement" usually refers to a North American social phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s (which is discussed further, below in this article). This particular back-to-the-land movement was a migration from cities to rural areas that took place in the United States, its greatest vigor being before the mid '70s. Back to the land - A recurring pattern. By way of context, a few things may be usefully said. The American poet/anthropologist Gary Snyder (who is also an amateu ...

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1970s - Social movements: Encyclopedia - Cultural history

Cultural history, at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. Most often the focus is on phenomena shared by non-elite groups in a society, such as: carnival, festival, and public rituals; performance traditions of tale, epic, and other verbal forms; cultural evolutions in human relations (ideas, sciences, arts, techniques); and cultural expressions of social movements su ...

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Cultural history - A Vague Example: Historiography and the French Revolution

1970s - Social movements: Encyclopedia - Ammon Hennacy

Ammon Hennacy (July 24, 1893 - January 14, 1970) was a pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and was known for establishing the "Joe Hill House of Hospitality" in Salt Lake City, Utah and never paying taxes. Ammon Hennacy - Biography. Hennacy was born in Negley, Ohio to Quaker parents and grew up as a Baptist. On hearing Billy Sunday preach in 1909 he became an atheist and shortly afterward became a socialist. He studied for a year at three differ ...

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1970s - Social movements: Encyclopedia - Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American guitarist and country singer, originally from Abbott, Texas. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, though he had already become famous as a 1960s songwriter. Willie Nelson - Biographical details. Willie Nelson - Beginnings. Nelson and his sister, Bobbie Nelson, were raised by their grandparents after their father died and their mother ran away. Willie played the guitar, while Bobbie p ...

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1970s - Social movements: Encyclopedia - William Sloane Coffin

Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (born June 1, 1924) is a liberal clergyman and long-time peace activist with international stature. He was a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr's social philosophy led him to become a leader in the civil-rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He went on to serve as Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York City, and President of SANE/Freeze (now Peace Action), the nation's largest peace and justice group, and has prominently opposed U.S. ...

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1970s - Social movements: Encyclopedia - Arab Socialism

Arab Socialism (ar. الاشتراكية العربية, al-ishtirākīya al-‘arabīya) is a political ideology based on an amalgamation of Pan-Arabism and Socialism. The concept of Arab Socialism should not be confused with the much broader tradition of socialist thought in the Arab World, which predates Arab Socialism by as much as 50 years. Arab Socialism - Background and influence. Arab Socialism represents a historically very important political trend in the Arab world, although its influence ...

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1970s - Social movements: Encyclopedia - Young Left Sweden

Young Left (Ung Vänster) is the youth organisation of the Swedish Left Party. Young Left Sweden - Ideology. It is an organisation that organizes the youth of today that fights for a socialistic social change. Young Left is a revolutionary youth organisation developed out of the labour movement, with influences from environmentalism, the peace movement and the feminist movement. Young Left work for a communist (i.e. a classless) society, free from oppression, on the basis of marxist and feminist theo ...

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1970s - Social movements: Encyclopedia - World revolution

History of communism Schools of communism Marxism · Leninism Trotskyism · Maoism Council communism Religious communism Communist parties Communist International World Communist Movement Communist revolution World revolution Communist states The Soviet Union People's Republic of Chin ...

1970s - Social movements: Encyclopedia II - 1970s in Hong Kong - Community life

1970s in Hong Kong - Metrication. SI is put forth in Hong Kong during the 1970s. Television advertisements saying "1 feet equals 3 feets" (一呎等如三尺), as the Chinese term for metre literally means metric feet, are common. 1970s in Hong Kong - Education. The Hong Kong government introduced the 6-year free compulsory education in 1971, and expanded it to 9-year in 1978. < ...

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