WARREN COUNTY, North Carolina—Black and white, young and old, the people march down the country road they first walked 40 years ago, singing the songs they sang all those decades
The movement started out small in rural Warren County. But by September of 1982, media members, civil rights leaders, and ordinary citizens locked arms to take a stand.
Edward Leon Burwell, 87, of Martinsburg, WV passed away quietly at home on March 9, 2022. He was born Oct. 25, 1934 in Harrisville, West Virginia where he live
By Zuri Anderson
Apr 22, 2021
As the Black Lives Matter movement reignites discussions of racial disparities, more people are starting to take notice of environmental racism and its harmful effects on communities of color. One of the most egregious examples of this can be traced back to the 1970s in North Carolina, where Black residents stood up to local governments who were actively poisoning their water supply with a toxic landfill.
In fact, this moment in American history is largely credited for started the environmental justice movement in the nation.
To understand how this started, let s dial back time to the late 1970s. A New York trucking company devised a scheme to their losses and dump gallons of a toxic chemical known as PCBs along 240 miles of rural roads across 14 North Carolina counties.
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