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In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto on the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Concurrently, Anniston environmentalists wanted to safely eliminate chemical substance weaponry that were secretly stockpiled nearby the city through the Cold War. In this particular probing work, Ellen Griffith Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston's battles for environmental justice, exposing how systemic racial and category inequalities reinforced through the Jim Crow era enjoyed out in these intense contemporary social activities. Spears centers attention on key statistics who formed Anniston - from Monsanto's founders to white and African American activists to the normal Anniston residents whose lives and health were deeply afflicted by the town's military-industrial background and the legacy of racism. Situating the non-public problems and triumphs of Anniston residents within a more substantial national tale of regulatory regimes and legal strategies that have affected toxic towns across America, Spears unflinchingly explores the complexities and implications of environmental inequalities, displaying how civil privileges movements activism undergirded Anniston's campaigns for redemption and justice.
