Black History Month: Dr. Robert Bullard, creator of the environmental justice movement, talks about his work and legacy in Houston – ABC13 Houston

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Professor, author, and advocate Dr. Robert Bullard says he came into the field by accident through a boots-on-the-ground field project he assigned his grad students in the late 1970s. The task was to look at where landfills were located in the city of Houston. The result was a study that found over 80% of all garbage disposed in Houston was dumped in Black neighborhoods, even though only 25% of the population at the time was Black.

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