The Resource Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret, Catherine Coleman Flowers ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson
Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret, Catherine Coleman Flowers ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson
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The item Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret, Catherine Coleman Flowers ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library.
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- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret
- Title
- Waste
- Title remainder
- one woman's fight against America's dirty secret
- Statement of responsibility
- Catherine Coleman Flowers ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
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- Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Dewey number
- 363.72/84930973
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RA567.5.U6
- LC item number
- F56 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Stevenson, Bryan
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Sewage disposal
- Sanitation
- Poor
- Public health
- Environmental justice
- Environmental policy
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
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- Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret, Catherine Coleman Flowers ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson
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- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1182019443
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xi, 208 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620976081
- Lccn
- 2020027724
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- unmediated
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- Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret, Catherine Coleman Flowers ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson
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- rdacontent
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- on1182019443
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xi, 208 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620976081
- Lccn
- 2020027724
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- unmediated
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