The MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist's
riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for
America's most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best
Science Book of 2020 Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur
"genius," grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been
called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history.
Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground
Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers's life's work-a fight
to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for
granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural
poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste
from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers
calls this America's dirty secret. In this "powerful and moving
book" (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial,
and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not
just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central
California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on
Native American reservations in the West. In this inspiring story
of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil
rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan
Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation
is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings
sewage to more backyards-not only those of poor minorities.
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