Earth Day

A cleanup of the Potomac River via canoe was one of the hundreds of activities featured on the first Earth Day in 1970.

From Canoes: A Natural History in North America by Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims

The brainchild of Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day was called a “teach-in” and gained more attention for the environmental movement.
Creator(s)	O'Halloran, Thomas J.
Subjects	History Cultural Studies Literature Native American Studies Regional Studies
Date	1970
Related Section	Chapter 7: The Human-Powered Movement
Keywords	environmentalism Earth Day Maryland Gaylord Nelson
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Credit Line	Photograph by Thomas J. O’Halloran, courtesy of the Library and Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ds-00750.
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