Book ID: CBB832812863

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago (2014)

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Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Robert Gioielli offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St. Louis, and Chicago to show how urban activism developed as an impassioned response to a host of racial, social, and political conflicts. As deindustrialization, urban renewal, and suburbanization caused the decline of the urban environment, residents--primarily African Americans and working-class whites--organized to protect their families and communities from health threats and environmental destruction. Gioielli examines various groups' activism in response to specific environmental problems caused by the urban crisis in each city. In doing so, he forms concrete connections between environmentalism, the African American freedom struggle, and various urban social movements such as highway protests in Baltimore and air pollution activism in Chicago. Eventually, the efforts of these activists paved the way for the emergence of a new movement-environmental justice.

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Authors & Contributors
Alessandra Landi
Weems, Robert E
Busch, Andrew M.
Marika Plater
Giovanni Carrosio
Benesch, Klaus
Concepts
Environment
Urban history
Political activists and activism
Environmentalism
Social justice
Environmental pollution
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.)
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Los Angeles (California)
Ohio (U.S.)
Institutions
Friends of the Earth
New School for Social Research
Sierra Club
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