Preview | Our Movement Starts Here
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Learn how the environmental justice movement was born in Warren County, NC.
Learn how a rural community in Warren County, North Carolina, mobilized to fight plans to place a toxic landfill in their county. This landmark action, the first to articulate the concepts of environmental racism and environmental justice, brought together civil rights activists and environmentalists to fight for a common goal.
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PBS North Carolina Presents is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Preview | Our Movement Starts Here
Preview: 8/28/2025 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Learn how a rural community in Warren County, North Carolina, mobilized to fight plans to place a toxic landfill in their county. This landmark action, the first to articulate the concepts of environmental racism and environmental justice, brought together civil rights activists and environmentalists to fight for a common goal.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipIn North Carolina today, a PCB cleanup operation became an object of protest and 76 arrests.
I'm certain that the state officials, including the governor, knew that it wasn't appropriate to put tons of toxins in a poor rural, predominantly African-American community, but that's what happened.
And it became the very forefront of what's come to be known today as the environmental justice movement.
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