A new exhibit in the Keohane-Kenan Gallery highlights the community’s response to the N.C. Governor’s decision to construct a toxic landfill in predominantly Black Warren County in 1978. Through legal challenges and grassroots organizing, the residents pushed back, coming together across racial and generational lines to launch a protest in 1982 that sparked the national environmental justice movement.
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