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Dollie B. Burwell Remembers (2022)

Dollie B. Burwell, often referred to as the “mother of the environmental justice movement,” was a central figure in protests against toxic waste dumping in North Carolina in 1982. Polychlorinated biphenyls, known as PCBs, are toxic chemical [...]

Tags: Civil Rights, North Carolina, pollution
Item Type: Article/Essay
Historical Era: Contemporary US (1976 to the present)

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