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That was unfortunate. Whether the organizers of last weekendâs rally knew it or not, the 1963 March on Washington inspired some of the pioneering activists who created the modern-day environmental movement. Some of those environmentalists participated in the civil rights movement that birthed the 1963 March. Since that time, however, the environmental and civil rights movements have never fully gelled together, despite some efforts to make that happen along the way. There were signs that the organizers of last weekendâs rally were again trying to connect the dots.
There is still a great deal of environmental activism, but in the past five decades environmental concerns have become more ingrained in the consciousness of the American population. The rise of the modern environmental movement in America can be traced to several widely publicized events in the 1960s and the 1970s.