The Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century is most often associated with African Americans and the South, however, efforts to remove the exploitative working conditions endured by Latino immigrants and Chicano farm workers in California and the Southwest United States are part of this history as well.  

On a Google slide show (or on a mini poster) assemble the following information (with pictures).  You can use the link above or another reputable site.

What were the conditions farm workers felt were unjust?

Who are the principal individuals important to the creation of the Farm Worker's Union?

What did this movement accomplish?

What were factors that hindered the Farm Worker's movement?  

The modern environmental movement captured the nation’s attention in 1970 when millions of Americans took part in the first Earth Day. Congress recessed for the day, Time magazine designated the environment as “the issue of the year,” and events at schools, colleges, neighborhood parks, and state capitols focused new attention on the fate of the Earth.

The forces that propelled the environment into the limelight of American public life had been building since the 1950s. The nation’s post–World War II economic boom had allowed many people more time to focus on quality of life issues. Since the publication of Rachel Carson’s 1962 book, Silent Spring, which highlighted the potential human and ecological threats posed by pesticides, Americans had grown warier of postwar technologies such as chemicals and plastics. The science of ecology was raising both scientific and popular concern for an interconnected and fragile environment. A series of environmental disasters captured national headlines in the late 1960s: the polluted Cuyahoga River in Ohio caught fire in 1969, an oil derrick off the coast of Santa Barbara suffered a blow-out that same year, and severe air pollution plagued many metropolitan areas, including Los Angeles and New York. And the environmental movement drew on the energy of other political movements that charged American politics in the late 1960s.

It is difficult to conceive of Earth Day without the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, or the antiwar movement. The emerging environmental movement both borrowed from and contributed to the range of social protest movements that reshaped American politics in the 1960s and 1970s. 

A wide range of protest activities—including demonstrations, marches, speeches, and vigilante activities—shaped Earth Day, and the event brought together many Americans. This confluence of events, people, and movements represented the uncertain connections between environment, economics, government, and justice important to the emerging modern environmental movement.

How did it all begin?  How did environmentalism become such a big deal?

Read the article below and answer the questions.  Submit into Slate.