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  • Collection: We Birthed the Movement

"Ben Chavis Charges ‘Environmental Racism,'" April 23, 1987; The Charlotte Post, Charlotte, NC

"Durham Science Meet Studies PCB Effects" Durham Morning Herald, December 21, 1971

"Report of a New Chemical Hazard," December 15, 1966; New Scientist, London, United Kingdom

"Why I’m in Jail, Refusing to Cooperate with the Government, and Fasting", Spring 1983

“Alumni, graduate student arrested for PCB protest,” September 23, 1982, The Chronicle, Durham, North Carolina<br /><br />

“Hunt&#039;s Dump,” November 24, 1982

“Minority Neighborhoods Becoming Dumping Grounds?,” November 11, 1982; The Charlotte Post, Charlotte , NC<br /><br />

“Youth – We Care!,” September 15, 1982

(Left to right) Armenta Eaton, Evelyn Lowery, Dollie Burwell, and Joycelyn McKissick in jail, September 28, 1982

A protest march against the PCB dump ca. 1982

Arrest of Joseph Lowery, October 4, 1982

Arrest of Wayne Moseley, September 15, 1982

Brochure, ca. 1982; Warren County Citizens Concerned About PCBs, Warren County, NC

Bumper Sticker &quot;Dump Hunt&quot;, ca. 1981; Warren County Citizens Concerned about PCBs, Warren County, NC

Community meeting announcement, January 4, 1979; The Warren Record Newspaper, Warrenton, NC

Community meeting on the eve of the protest, <br /><br /> September 14, 1982; Jerome Friar, Warrenton, NC<br /><br />

Deborah Ferruccio and young protester, September 15, 1982

Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality, by Robert C. Bullard, 1990, Westview Press, Boulder, CO<br /><br /> <br /><br />

Environmental Health Perspectives cover, issue 1, April 1972

Flyer from Transformer Maintenance Institute about ban on PCBs, ca. 1982

Flyer, “Stop PCB Dumping in Warren County,” September 1, 1982

Kimberly Burwell at a protest march, March 8, 1983

Let There Be Music songbook cover

Letter from Henry Rooker to L.H. Fountain, January 25, 1982

Letter from Pete Seeger to John “Yonni” Chapman, October 6, 1982
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