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As the EPA introduces environmental justice office, the ‘mother of the movement’ remembers the Black women who led the battle

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th When Dollie Burwell, now 74, reflects back on the Warren County protests, she thinks about the Black women who led and supported the protesters. For six weeks in 1982, Burwell and hundreds of others from her predominantly Black North Carolina community marched to block trucks from bringing in soil contaminated […]

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