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
these intense contemporary social movements.
Spears focuses attention on key figures who shaped Anniston from
Monsanto s founders to white and African American activists to the
ordinary Anniston residents whose lives and health were deeply
affected by the town s military-industrial history and the legacy
of racism. Situating the personal struggles and triumphs of
Anniston residents within a larger national story of regulatory
regimes and legal strategies that have affected toxic towns across
America, Spears unflinchingly explores the causes and implications
of environmental inequalities, showing how civil rights movement
activism undergirded Anniston s campaigns for redemption and
justice.
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