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Freehold (Hardcover)
Lee Ellen Griffith
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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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