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Author Flowers, Catherine Coleman, author.

Title Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret / Catherine Coleman Flowers ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson.

Publication Info. New York : The New Press, 2020.

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  363.728 FLOWERS    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  363.7284 FLO    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.7284 FLOWERS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  363.7284 FLOWERS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.72 FLO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  363.7284 FLOWERS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Non Fiction  363.7284 FLOWERS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  363.7284 FLOWERS    Check Shelf
Description xi, 208 pages ; 23 cm
Summary "Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this America's dirty secret. In this powerful book she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions, not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. Flowers's book is the inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative. It shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards, and not only those of poor minorities"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Public health -- United States.
United States -- Environmental conditions.
Sewage disposal. (OCoLC)fst01113866
Environmental policy -- United States.
Environmental policy. (OCoLC)fst00913250
Sanitation. (OCoLC)fst01105094
Environmental justice. (OCoLC)fst00913104
Public health. (OCoLC)fst01082238
Environmental justice -- United States.
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Flowers, Catherine Coleman.
Sanitation -- United States.
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Poor -- Health and hygiene. (OCoLC)fst01071078
Sewage disposal -- United States.
Local Subject Poor people -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
Subject Poor -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
Added Author Stevenson, Bryan, writer of foreword.
ISBN 9781620976081 (hardcover)
1620976080 (hardcover)
9781620976098 (ebook)
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