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Justice for a Toxic Town

Professor Ellen Griffith Spears of the University of Alabama, author of "Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town," discusses the decades long struggle for environmental and civil rights justice in Anniston, Alabama, and broader lessons to be learned from this fight to address one community's exposure to toxic chemicals.

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  Fall for Liberation with Maria Harmon

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  Organizing Faculty in Florida with Paul Ortiz

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  The Present and Future of Southern Labor: The UAW’s Historic Win at Volksw…

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  Beyond Norma Rae

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  Southern Exposure at 50: Sue Thrasher, Bob Hall, and Leah Wise

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  Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama

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  Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami

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  Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

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  Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco with Victoria Boulouba…

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  Citizen and Other: Puerto Rican Farmworkers in the United States

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  Labor, Capital, and Politics in the Industrial South

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  Race, Class, and Communism in the Jim Crow South

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  Politics of the Pantry

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  Southern Sisters and Social Justice in the Jim Crow South

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  Making the Woman Worker

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  Race, Slavery, and Psychiatry