Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Foreword: The Age of Environmental Inequality xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART 1: THE NATURE OF SEGREGATION
8. Introduction 23
9. “WHERE WE LIVE”
10. Introduction 25
11. Shack of Negro Family Farmers Living near Jarreau, Louisiana, 1938 29
12. Backed Up Sewer in Negro Slum District, Norfolk, Virginia, 1941 30
13. Kitchen of Negro Dwelling in Slum Area near House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1935 31
14. Migratory Mexican Field Worker’s Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937 32
15. Home Owners Loan Corporation, Los Angeles Data Sheet D52, 1939 33
16. Negro Children Standing in Front of Half Mile Concrete Wall, Detroit, Michigan, 1941 34
17. Examples of Racially Restrictive Real Estate Covenants 36
18. Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth Homes, a New U.S. Federal Housing Project, Caused by White Neighbors’ Attempt to Prevent Negro Tenants from Moving In, 1942 39
19. “Growing Pains of a Brand-New City,” 1954 40
20. “Confessions of a Block-Buster,” 1962 42
21. Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., 1963 49
22. Fair Housing Protest, Seattle, Washington, 1964 50
23. Fair Housing Act of 1968 51
24. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “Understanding Fair Housing,” 1973 53
25. “WHERE WE WORK”
26. Introduction 57
27. [Cotton Picking Scenes on Roger Williams Plantation in the Delta, New Drew, Mississippi], 1940 59
28. Steel Mill Workers, Bethlehem Company, Sparrows Point, Maryland, 1940 60
29. Help Wanted White Only 61
30. “The Negro Automobile Worker,” 1943 62
31. Navajo Miners Work at the Kerr-McGee Uranium Mine at Cove, Ariz., 1953 64
32. “Biographical Sketch,” September 28, 2017 65
33. Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII: Equal Employment Opportunity 68
34. Commencement Address at Howard University: “To Fulfill These Rights,” 1965 70
35. “Exhibit 1 in City of Memphis vs. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” 1968 75
36. “WHERE WE PLAY”
37. Introduction 77
38. Introduction, The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1950 79
39. Lewis Mountain Entrance Sign, Shenandoah National Park 81
40. Colored Only Sign 82
41. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Dawson, 1955 83
42. Civil Rights Demonstration at Fort Lauderdale’s Segregated Public Beach, 1961 85
43. Jackson NAACP Branches to City and State Officials, May 12, 1963 86
44. PART 2: A MORE INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTALISM? FROM EARTH DAY TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
45. Introduction 89
46. A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS CRITIQUE
47. Introduction 91
48. Indians of All Tribes, “The Alcatraz Proclamation,” 1969 93
49. “‘So a Lot of the Navajo Ladies Became Widows’”. 95
50. “Growers Spurn Negotiations on Poisons,” 1969 97
51. “Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities,” 1970 99
52. RACE, ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
53. Introduction 105
54. Speech at the Philadelphia Earth Week Rally, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, April 22, 1970 107
55. EPA Task Force on the Environmental Problems of the Inner City, Our Urban Environment and Our Most Endangered People, 1971 112
56. Chicago Ghetto on the South Side, 1974 118
57. “The [Sierra] Club Looks at Itself,” 1972 119
58. TOXICS, WARREN COUNTY, AND THE DOCUMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISPARITIES
59. Introduction 121
60. Protest Signs in Front Yard Love Canal 99th Street Home, 1978 124
61. Protest Sign: Danger, Dioxin Kills, 1980 125
62. “Why Superfund Was Needed,” 1981 126
63. Anti-PCB Protests in Warren County, North Carolina, 1982 130
64. “A Warren County PCB Protest Song,” 1982 132
65. General Accounting Office, “Siting of Hazardous Waste Landfills and Their Correlation with Racial and Economic Status of Surrounding Communities,” 1983 134
66. Cerrell Associates, Political Difficulties Facing Waste-to- Energy Conversion Plant Siting, 1984 137
67. United Church of Christ, “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States,” 1987 142
68. United Church of Christ, “Fifty Metropolitan Areas with Greatest Number of Blacks Living in Communities with Uncontrolled Waste Sites,” 1987 149
69. “Unequal Protection,” 1992 150
70. BUILDING THE MOVEMENT
71. Introduction 159
72. The Great Louisiana Toxics March, 1988 162
73. Protest New York City’s North River Sewage Treatment Plant, 1988 163
74. SouthWest Organizing Project, “Letter to Big Ten Environmental Groups,” March 16, 1990 164
75. From One Earth Day to the Next, 1990 169
76. Indigenous Environmental Network, “Unifying Principles,” 1991 170
77. First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit Press Conference, October 24, 1991 171
78. “Moving beyond the Barriers,” 1991 178
79. “The Principles of Environmental Justice,” 1991 180
80. “Environmental Equity,” 1992 183
81. “Administration Joins Fight for ‘Environmental Justice’ Pollution,” 1993 188
82. Executive Order 12898, February 16, 1994 194
83. “Women of Color, Environmental Justice, and Ecofeminism,” 1997 198
84. “Standing on Principle” 201
85. “Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing,” 1996 206
86. Public Citizen, “NAFTA’s Broken Promises,” 1997 209
87. PART 3: THE ENVIRONMENT AND JUSTICE IN THE SUSTAINABILITY ERA
88. Introduction 211
89. INSTITUTIONAL LEGACIES
90. Introduction 213
91. “Government by the People” 215
92. “Memorandum,” August 9, 2001 217
93. Second People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, “Principles of Working Together,” 2002 220
94. “Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty,” 2007 226
95. “The Shot Heard Round the West,” 2010 233
96. Environmental Protection Agency, “Plan EJ 2014,” 2011 238
97. “Environmental Justice, Denied,” 2015 246
98. CONTINUING EJ ACTIVISM
99. Introduction 251
100. Buttonwillow Park, CA, January 30, 2009 252
101. Wasco, CA, January 30, 2009 253
102. Online Meme on #NoDAPL 254
103. “Unlicensed #DAPL Guards Attacked Water Protectors with Dogs & Pepper Spray,” 2016 255
104. “2017 and Beyond: Justice Jumping Genres,” Environmental Health News 258
105. FROM ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE TO JUSTICE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
106. Introduction 265
107. “Bali Principles of Climate Justice,” August 29, 2002 267
108. “Rising Sea Levels,” 2016 273
109. “For African Americans, Park Access Is about More Than Just Proximity,” 2016 277
110. “Food Justice,” 2013 280
111. “Power Shift Keynote,” 2009 283
112. World Rainforest Movement, “‘For a Change of Paradigm’: Interview with Tom Goldtooth from the Indigenous Environmental Network,” 2016 286
113. Index 291
114. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books 306