Feb 20, 2021
BHM: Good Black News Celebrates Hazel M. Johnson, the "Mother of Environmental Justice"
BHM: Good Black News Celebrates Hazel M. Johnson, the “Mother of Environmental Justice”
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) This is Hazel M. Johnson. A working-class woman and mother of seven who lived in the Chicago housing project Altgeld Gardens for most of her adult life. Because of Johnson’s grassroots efforts to combat environmental racism, she is now known as the “Mother of Environmental Justice.” In 1979, a decade after her husband died of lung cancer, Johnson saw a…
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