Carson's alarming prognosis, however, was not lost on some of the legislators of her day. After
appearing at Senate hearings in 1963, Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut became so
moved by her testimony, he asked her to autograph his copy of Silent Spring. Clearly, her clarion
call would not go completely ignored.
“Silent Spring showed that people are not master of nature, but rather part of nature,” says
Carson's biographer, John Henricksson. “It was a revolutionary thought at the time. Today no one
seriously questions its truth, but in 1962 it was a direct attack on the values and assumptions of
a society.”
appearing at Senate hearings in 1963, Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut became so
moved by her testimony, he asked her to autograph his copy of Silent Spring. Clearly, her clarion
call would not go completely ignored.
“Silent Spring showed that people are not master of nature, but rather part of nature,” says
Carson's biographer, John Henricksson. “It was a revolutionary thought at the time. Today no one
seriously questions its truth, but in 1962 it was a direct attack on the values and assumptions of
a society.”
TIMELINE:
1960 Pacifica Radio is created.
1960 Mort Sahl makes the cover ot Time magazine, dubbed “the patriarch of a new school of comedians.”
1961 James Baldwin identifies “the two most powerful movements” in America as the student integrationist
movement and the Nation of Islam. Baldwin sides with the civil rights movement but admits “the Muslim
movement has all the evidence on its side.”
movement and the Nation of Islam. Baldwin sides with the civil rights movement but admits “the Muslim
movement has all the evidence on its side.”
1961 Black Americans, organized by Maya Angelou and others, protest in front of the United Nations after
the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo.
the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo.
1962 Illinois becomes the first state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults in private.
1962 James Meredith becomes the first black student at the University of Mississippi.
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