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Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret
- Title
- Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret / Catherine Coleman Flowers ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson.
- Author
- Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Publication
- New York : The New Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 22-322 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stevenson, Bryan
- Description
- xi, 208 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Catherine Flowers 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 Flowers's life's work. It's 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 book 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. Flowers's book is the 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. It shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards, and not only those of poor minorities"--
- Subject
- Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Women environmentalists > Alabama > Biography
- African American women > Alabama > Biography
- Sewage disposal > United States
- Sanitation > United States
- Poor > Health and hygiene > United States
- Public health > United States
- Environmental justice > United States
- Environmental policy > United States
- Ecology
- Environmental justice
- Environmental policy
- Poor > Health and hygiene
- Public health
- Sanitation
- Sewage disposal
- United States > Environmental conditions
- United States
- Call Number
- Sc D 22-322
- ISBN
- 9781620976081
- 1620976080
- LCCN
- 2020027724
- OCLC
- 1182019443
- Author
- Flowers, Catherine Coleman, author.
- Title
- Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret / Catherine Coleman Flowers ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson.
- Publisher
- New York : The New Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Stevenson, Bryan, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 22-322JFD 21-1618