NAACP Report Synthesis

This makes me qualified to do this research paper. Additionally, I am able to contact experts on the issue who can offer their opinion and knowledge on the issue. The sources used in this paper will be from Academic Search Premier. Academic Search Premier has a plethora of resources I can use for my empirical paper. The sources (articles) I will use will be peer reviewed and they will from the year 2007 and onward. I will try to steer clear of articles that are older than this because the data may not reflect the current situation. Therefore, the data will be more recent. The first source I will be using is a peer review article by Hines. The article talks specifically about the statics in Emelle Alabama and the detrimental effects of hazardous waste dumping in the county. The second article will be by Hurley who looks at the environmental racism history of America and how that affects minorities now. The third article is by Mcdoll who gives the background on how minorities are mistreated and treated unfairly when it comes to choosing where noxious waste facilities

The civil rights movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. It has been made up of many movements, though it is often used to refer to the struggles between 1945 and 1970 to end discrimination against African-Americans and to end racial segregation, especially in the U.S. South. It focuses on that particular struggle, rather than the comparable movements to end discrimination against other ethnic groups within the United States or those struggles, such as the women's liberation, gay liberation, and disabled rights movements, that have used similar tactics in pursuit of similar goals. The civil rights movement has had a lasting

In “Disproportionate Siting” author Dorcetta Taylor discusses the common claims of unequal exposure to environmental hazards being due to racial and class discrimination (33). Taylor states, “Proponents of this thesis argue that hazardous facilities are disproportionally located in minority and low-income areas and that these patterns are the result of discrimination” (33). In regards to racial and social class discrimination, she argues that the claim of racism is the more controversial of the two with many scholars arguing on both sides (Taylor, 34). She then delves into different studies that argued that race was a factor in explaining location of and exposure to environmental hazards (Taylor, 35). Taylor then discusses the studies that

Those who argue that environmental racism is a serious problem in America and the whole world, and their number are growing, are correct in at least one of their assertions. Racism exists. environmental problems exist. these facts, however, do not reveal whether or not environmental racism has occurred in any given instance. this might be an unimportant distinction but for the fact that some argue that civil right laws be applied to pollution events and related regulatory violations.

One of the first influences on the deliberation on Environmental Justice was The Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America. Leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. fought hard to ensure that social transformation and power be established for African Americans, especially those in the southern states as well as those in the northern inner-city parts. Activists like King altered the philosophy on Environmental Justice arguing that there was a lopsided effect that proved that environmental hazards were not accidental. What environmentalists advocated instead was that environmental dangers resulted from racial segregation that placed power plants, nuclear plants, and other potential ecological hazards in areas with a high concentration of minority and low income groups. Several activists defined this as “environmental racism.”

On November 10, 2017, the National Black Pre-Law Conference will host a one-day networking and empowerment event at the New York University School of Law. The conference is a premier event that focuses on African-Americans who are interested in becoming future lawyers. The activity will provide aspiring lawyers with information, connection, resources, and support to help them in their decision on joining the legal profession.

The African American community, in contrast to the rest of Norco and Louisiana, is historically afflicted with higher rates of cancer and asthma related deaths (Margie 01:19:29:20 ), and more prone to birth defects (Wilma Subra 01:18:09:03 ). Closely related and contrastingly to this, the white community of Norco tends to have longer lifespans, and are apparently less affected by cancer and asthma (Sal 01:21:11:29 ). The film directly compares these two perspectives, layering them side by side chronologically. The film uses this comparison as evidence that the African American community’s close proximity to the Shell refinery is an environmental determinant to health. Furthermore, that geographic location and environment are factors directly affecting health.

Are you for coal or against coal? Maybe better yet, are you for the preservation of the mountains and nature or are you against it? These questions held such a deep meaning and understanding that on the surface seemed immaterial to large corporations such as the Coal Mining Industry or political leaders within the State of West Virginia. Combating Mountaintop Removal by Bryan McNeil gives us the views of what it looks like from a grassroots environmental activist within the West Virginia coal country. In the book you see how the social and moral arguments are framed from different agents such as the Ant-MTRM (Mountain top removal) organization, the Coal Miners and Union works, to the Coal Mining Companies, and finally the State through political

When one discusses acts of racism, slander or the stereotyping of a group of people may come to mind. However, the concept of environmental racism is rarely considered. This form of racism positions dominant environmental framing as racially driven, in which people of color (i.e. minorities) are affected disproportionately by poor environmental practices. Communities of color throughout the United States have become the dumping grounds for our nation’s waste disposal, as well as home to agricultural and/or manufacturing industries that pollute the land. Government regulations and cultural practices have all contributed to environmental racism. The government’s policies have also negatively impacted low income groups as well as people of

On October 19,2016 The University of Mississippi’s NAACP hosted a “Trick or Treat With the NAACP” social since Halloween is approaching. During this time both members and nonmembers of the NAACP came together to make goodie bags for children throughout the Oxford community as well as workers who sometimes go unnoticed on campus such as custodians. Afterwards, we all sat around, ate pizza, and got to know one another throughout a host of games. This small event made me very proud to be a member of Ole Miss’s NAACP organization.

The black lung movement was a movement formed in the late 1960’s in which the miners fought for the health benefits to cover black lung disease. Black lung is directly caused by mining and working with coal. Mildred Mullins wrote this poem and hung it on the coffin of her dead husband in the Capital to display what was going on, “Compensation we are asking,
While alive and still gasping;
When life is o’er and hymns are sung,
Then they’ll know we have black lung.( “Charleston Gazette” 15)” The miners felt that since their job caused this disease that they should be compensated for it. The coal companies felt that mining did not cause this lung disease and that the miners were just making it up.

Environmental Injustice alludes to socially minimized racial minority groups which are subjected to lopsided presentation of contaminations, the forswearing of access to wellsprings of biological advantages, (for example, clean air, water, and characteristic assets), or both. Studies that date back to the 1970s have indicated a reliable example in who lives close to the sorts of dangers: dangerous waste locales, landfills, and congested thruways. The constant answer: destitute individuals and groups of shading. This example of "ecological bad form" recommends that minorities may battle each day with unbalanced wellbeing dangers from tailpipe fumes or coal plant outflows. Be that as it may, these wellbeing dangers are harder to measure than say, the quantity of energy plants in a city. Also, the greater part of the exploration that has attempted to do this has been compelled to a singular metropolitan locale, or to those few places that happen to have extraordinary checking data on sullying. The Dark Administration Discussion goes about as a clearinghouse for national African American pioneers. The DAD unites Dark pioneers to ponder issues of the most profound, centrality to African Americans especially social equality and real open approach issues. Since the late spring of 2000, DAD has included Environmental Change as a critical strategy issue of worry to the African American authority.

An environmentalist named Robert F. Kennedy wrote an article in 2009 for the Financial Times in which he said that the United States must end its “dependence on deadly, destructive coal” (Bryce 58). “Acid rain, airborne particulates, water pollution, and air pollution are just

These resources are used in almost all aspects of our lives, they however pose many risks and have a negative impact on our environment. The combustion of coal creates a variety of environmental problems. Gasses such as nitrogen oxide, sulfur oxide, and carbon dioxide are emitted from coal power plants and into the air and soil (Christensen, 490). These emissions are potent greenhouse gasses that erode Earth 's protective ozone layer and are a contributing factor to climate change (EPA). The Environmental Protection Agency also states, “A warming climate will bring changes that can affect our water supplies, agriculture, power and

Coal-fired power plant generates 44 percent of the electricity; however, it is considered the biggest air polluter in the United States and one of the biggest factors in causing global warming. The greenhouse gas emissions from the coal-fired power plants are threatening the human health and the ecosystems. Fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement its responsibilities and regulate the pollutants. Nevertheless, the U.S. EPA is facing with many challenges from the coal plants owners, Republicans, and workers in coal-reliant states, such as Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky. They opposed to the U.S. EPA’s new carbon dioxide regulations and tried to overturn the EPA’s authority.