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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. "--

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV). --- NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. --- Working class --- African Americans --- Environmental health --- Environmental justice --- Polychlorinated biphenyls --- Eco-justice --- Environmental justice movement --- Global environmental justice --- Environmental policy --- Environmentalism --- Social justice --- PCBs --- Polychlorobiphenyls --- Biphenyl compounds --- Organochlorine compounds --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Health and hygiene --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Employment --- Monsanto Company --- Monsanto (Firm) --- Monsanto Chemical Company --- History. --- Anniston (Ala.) --- Anniston, Ala. --- City of Anniston (Ala.) --- Social conditions. --- Race relations. --- Environmental conditions. --- Black people