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  • Collection: We Birthed the Movement

PCB landfill protest logo

Let There Be Music songbook cover

Protest song: Kumbaya (Come By Here)

Protest song: If you want your freedom

Protest song: To the tune of Land of 1000 Dances

Protest song: Fired Up!

Protest song: I Am Somebody

A protest march against the PCB dump ca. 1982

Letter to Gov. James B. Hunt from W.R. Richardson, Hollister, NC, October 5, 1982

Reverend Donald Jarboe, September 15, 1982

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

&quot;Ben Chavis Charges ‘Environmental Racism,&#039;&quot; April 23, 1987; The Charlotte Post, Charlotte, NC

Reverend Benjamin Chavis at protest, September 17, 1982; Mike Sargent, Afton, NC<br /><br />

Toxic Waste and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites, 1982

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

Siting of Hazardous Waste Landfills and Their Correlation with Racial and Economic Status of Surrounding Communities, June 1, 1983

Walter E. Fauntroy at protest, September 28, 1982; Mike Sargent, Afton, NC

Roadside warning, ca. August 21, 1978; Charles S. Killebrew, Nash County, NC

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

Toxic Substances cover, April 1, 1971; Council on Environmental Quality, Washington DC

Environmental Health Perspectives cover, issue 1, April 1972

&quot;Durham Science Meet Studies PCB Effects&quot; Durham Morning Herald, December 21, 1971

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

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
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