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The Student Activist Movement In Silent Spring By Rachel Carson

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In 1962, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was introduced. This group was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. Socialist league for industrial democracy (Foner, 1004). The manifesto of the SDS is recognized as the Port Huron Statement. It criticized the federal government for racial inequality, poverty, and also the Cold War and international peace.
Another movement that took place in the 1960s was environmentalism. In 1962, a marine biologist, Rachel Carson, published "Silent Spring". Rachel Carson exposed the effects of DDT, an insecticide, to millions of readers. The insecticide that is widely used by homeowners and farmers against gypsy moths, mosquitos, and
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