In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen Griffith Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston's battles for environmental justice, exposing how systemic racial and class inequalities reinforced during the Jim Crow era played out in...
In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's...
"Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 draws on new histories of local environmental activism to analyze actions of those who helped and those who hindered the movement. It provides a concise overview of the American environmental movement and is essential reading for both students or scholars"--
"Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 draws on new histories of local environmental activism to analyze actions of those who helpe...
