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

Title

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

Description

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.

Creator

Commission for Racial Justice

Publisher

United Church of Christ

Date

1987

Files

Citation

Commission for Racial Justice, “Fifty Metropolitan Areas with Greatest Number of Blacks Living in Communities with Uncontrolled Toxic Waste Sites,” Fifty Years of Green: An Environmental History of Middlebury College since 1965, accessed March 29, 2024, https://omeka.middlebury.edu/fyg/items/show/317.

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