Arts & Leisure: Toni Morrison Emerges

One of the strongest literary voices to emerge from this decade was Toni Morrison, who examined the Black American experience as never before.

Arts & Leisure: Hanging Out, Down the Street....

Pop Culture: Fads

What do you think when you hear the "70's"?
i always think able lava lamps and mood rings, but it comes the my attention that it was more that captured the imagination of this decade, which was: Mood rings, lava lamps, Rubik's cube, Sea Monkeys, smiley face stickers, string art, and pet rocks.

Pop Culture: Food :)

Most kids use to eat tv dinners called "Sundown suppers"

Pop Culture: Movements

Major trends of the 70's included a growing disillusionment of government, advances in civil rights, increased influence of the women's movement, a heightened concern for the environment, and increased space exploration.

Pop Culture: Hairstyles

Men/women of color use to wear Afros.

Pop Culture: Hairstyles

Mostly all the women use to wear the " Farrah Fawcett" hair style, but it is really called the feather.

Pop Culture: Fashion

In the 70's it was all about mini skirts, bell bottom jeans and flat form shoes.

Seventies

End of Oil embargo crisis

Most OPEC nations end a 5-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan. It lasted until March 1974. With the U.S. actions seen as initiating the oil embargo and the long term possibility of high oil prices, disrupted supply and recession, a strong rift was created within NATO.

Watergate scandal: John Dean Testimony

Arts & Leisure: Elvis' Hawaii Performance

His performance was broadcast on television and watched by more people than the first moon landing.

Arts & Leisure: Cartoons

Arts & Leisure: Knicks Defeat Lakers in Championship

On May 8, 1970, the New York Knicks defeat the Los Angeles Lakers in the seventh game of the NBA Finals to win their first NBA championship.

Arts & Leisure:The Beatles Release Their 12h & Final Album

Apollo 13 Splashes Down

Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act

The Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act is a U.S. federal law, passed in 1970, designed to limit the practice of smoking. It required a stronger health warning on cigarette packages, saying "Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined that Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health". The act also banned cigarette ads on American radio and TV.

Arts & Leisure: First Earth Day

Earth Day proved popular in the United States and around the world. The first April 22 Earth Day had participants and celebrants in two thousand colleges and universities, roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the United States. More importantly, it "brought 20 million Americans out into the spring sunshine for peaceful demonstrations in favor of environmental reform."

It is now observed in 175 countries, and coordinated by the nonprofit Earth Day Network, according to whom Earth Day is now "the largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated by more than a half billion people every year." Environmental groups have sought to make Earth Day into a day of action which changes human behavior and provokes policy changes

U.S. Postal Service Strike

The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was a groundbreaking two-week strike by federal postal workers in March 1970. President Richard Nixon called out the U.S. Armed Forces and the National Guard in an attempt to distribute the mail and break the strike.

The strike led directly to passage of the Postal Reorganization Act, which modernized the postal service and provided for collective bargaining for postal workers.

At the time, postal workers were not permitted by law to engage in collective bargaining. Striking postal workers felt wages were very low, benefits poor and working conditions unhealthy and unsafe. The U.S. Post Office Department's management was outdated and, according to workers, haphazard. Informal attempts by workers to obtain higher pay and better working conditions had proven fruitless.

My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Charges 14 Officers

The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, conducted South Vietnam by a unit of the United States Army. All of the victims were civilians and most were women, children (including babies), and elderly people. Many of the victims were raped, beaten, tortured, and some of the bodies were found mutilated.

On November 17, 1970, the U.S. Army charged 14 officers, including Major General Samuel W. Koster, the Americal Division's commanding officer, with suppressing information related to the incident. Most of those charges were later dropped. Brigade commander Henderson was the only officer who stood trial on charges relating to the cover-up; he was acquitted on December 17, 1971

Teenagers in the U.K. Vote for the First Time

Arts & Leisure: Diana Ross and the Supremes Farewell Concert

Arts & Leisure: First U.S. Episode of All My Children, 1970

In January 1970, the first U.S. episode of All My Children was broadcast on ABC.