Environmental justice in postwar America a documentary reader

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Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

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Book

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Full Title:

Environmental justice in postwar America a documentary reader / edited by Christopher W. Wells

Series Titles:

Weyerhaeuser environmental classics
Weyerhaeuser environmental classics.

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Additional Author/Creators:

Wells, Christopher W., editor

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Table of Contents:

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "Understanding Fair Housing," 1973"WHERE WE WORK"; [Cotton Picking Scenes on Roger Williams Plantation in the Delta, New Drew, Mississippi],1940; Steel Mill Workers, Bethlehem Company, Sparrows Point, Maryland, 1940; Help Wanted White Only; "The Negro Automobile Worker," 1943; Navajo Miners Work at the Kerr-McGee Uranium Mine at Cove, Ariz., 1953; "Biographical Sketch," September 28, 2017; Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII: Equal Employment Opportunity; Commencement Address at Howard University: "To Fulfill These Rights," 1965
Home Owners Loan Corporation Los Angeles Data Sheet D52, 1939Negro Children Standing in Front of Half Mile Concrete Wall, Detroit, Michigan, 1941; Examples of Racially Restrictive Real Estate Covenants; Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth Homes, a New U.S. Federal Housing Project, Caused by White Neighbors' Attempt to Prevent Negro Tenants from Moving In, 1942; "Growing Pains of a Brand-New City," 1954; "Confessions of a Block-Buster," 1962; Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., 1963; Fair Housing Protest, Seattle, Washington, 1964; Fair Housing Act of 1968
"Exhibit 1 in City of Memphis vs. Martin Luther King, Jr.," 1968"WHERE WE PLAY"; Introduction, The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1950; Lewis Mountain Entrance Sign, Shenandoah National Park; Colored Only Sign; Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Dawson, 1955; Civil Rights Demonstration at Fort Lauderdale's Segregated Public Beach, 1961; Jackson NAACP Branches to City and State Officials, May 12, 1963; PART 2 A MORE INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTALISM? FROM EARTH DAY TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS CRITIQUE; Indians of All Tribes, "The Alcatraz Proclamation," 1969
"'So a Lot of the Navajo Ladies Became Widows'""Growers Spurn Negotiations on Poisons," 1969; "Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities," 1970; RACE, ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE; Speech at the Philadelphia Earth Week Rally, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, April 22, 1970; EPA Task Force on the Environmental Problems of the Inner City, Our Urban Environment and Our Most Endangered People, 1971; Chicago Ghetto on the South Side, 1974; "The [Sierra] Club Looks at Itself," 1972; TOXICS, WARREN COUNTY, AND THE DOCUMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISPARITIES
Cover; WEYERHAEUSER ENVIRONMENTAL CLASSICS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Foreword: The Age of Environmental Inequality; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 THE NATURE OF SEGREGATION; "WHERE WE LIVE"; Shack of Negro Family Farmers Living near Jarreau, Louisiana, 1938; Backed Up Sewer in Negro Slum District, Norfolk, Virginia, 1941; Kitchen of Negro Dwelling in Slum Area near House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1935; Migratory Mexican Field Worker's Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (329 pages).

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Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936995156402486

ISBN:

0-295-74370-0

OCLC Number:

1032292248