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The MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist's riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America's most vulnerable

A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020

Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur "genius," grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes"…

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One of the most important new issues faced by rights advocates is climate change. Macarthur genius award-winner Catherine Coleman Flowers is on the front line of that fight, based on her own childhood as the daughter of an activist Black family in Lowndes County, Alabama. This memoir captures Flowers’ essence: someone who just can’t let an injustice slide by. And she will talk to anyone who might be able to help, including with cleaning up the raw sewage that continues to poison the homes of many poor Alabamians. Flowers clearly describes the link between local rights issues and the global…

From Robin's list on women human rights visionaries.

A powerful investigation into decades-long environmental injustice and land exploitation that have compromised African-American communities, in this case, in Alabama, and around the Deep South. A harrowing look at just how relentless southern white political structures have oppressed poor, rural African-American communities. In the end, also a riveting example of how – with proper leadership and organization -- communities can come together to fight back against structural racism.

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