Yale Environment School: Dr. Taylor to Address MLK Jr. and the Intersection of Civil Rights and Environmental Justice
January 15, 2022
January 15, 2022
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 15 (TNSOps) -- Yale School of Environment issued the following news:
While Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights activism often concentrated on the equal use of space -- from the right of people of color to picnic in a local park to being able to sit under a shady tree in an urban area to buying and living in safe homes -- the nomenclature of environmental justice had yet to be penned. But MLK Jr. and civil rights activists were at the very forefron . . .
While Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights activism often concentrated on the equal use of space -- from the right of people of color to picnic in a local park to being able to sit under a shady tree in an urban area to buying and living in safe homes -- the nomenclature of environmental justice had yet to be penned. But MLK Jr. and civil rights activists were at the very forefron . . .