Warren County will take a prominent position in the updated “RACE: Are We So Different” exhibit, which will be coming to the North Carolina Museum of Natural History soon.
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DURHAM — The environmental justice movement, unsurprisingly, seeks to address environmental injustice — if, say, hazardous waste is dumped haphazardly in a poor, marginalized community — that’s environmental injustice.
Deborah and Ken Ferruccio saw the toxic chemical spill while they were driving home late one summer night in 1978: a big smelly swath of brown oil on the side of the road. Reverend Willie T. Ramey saw it too. He was a pastor at two local churches and a respected community leader. And not long after that highway spill, he agreed to meet the Ferruccios just after midnight in a barn in Warren County, North Carolina. The Ferruccios told Reverend Ramey they needed his help. Someone was dumping toxic waste in their county, and they needed to organize. Today on the show: how a group of local citizens in a poor, rural, majority Black community came together to fight an iconic battle for environmental justice – and how their work laid a path that leads right up to today.