Fifty Metropolitan Areas with Greatest Number of Blacks Living in Communities with Uncontrolled Toxic Waste Sites

Fifty Metropolitan Areas with Greatest Number of Blacks Living in Communities with Uncontrolled Toxic Waste Sites

The "Toxic Wastes and Race" report that the United Church of Christ published in 1987 included a map illustrating the metropolitan areas where the greatest number of African- American residents lived near toxic waste sites. For instance, 99.8 percent of Memphis, Tennessee's black population was established within communities that contained a contaminated site.

Commission for Racial Justice

United Church of Christ

1987