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 David Caldwell, Jr. - On the landfill's environmental impact (clip)

David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): This was a dirt road, red, dusty, clay. All of this was cornfields, like I said, and a few houses, things, mostly a farming community. And when they did it, the road was so bad that it was tearing up the city s trucks, so they had to pave it sooner than they wanted to. So,…

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On activism (clip)

David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): We brought up the fact that they were not keeping the promises that were made. We would go to meetings to voice our protest and, I mean, we were met with disgust and disdain and, “Why are you guys back here again?” [Sound of train passing, whistle blowing] We were bringing…

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On RENA (clip)

David Caldwell, Jr. (DC): Right now I m the project director and the community organizer. And what I do is special projects that come up, I pretty much organize and get them going and get the community organized into participating. We do a Backpack Back-to-School Bash, where we give our goal is…

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On race as a factor in environmental justice (clip)

Darius Scott (DS): By thinking about the environmental issues that have been faced by Rogers Road, how do you think race factors into those? David Caldwell, Jr.: Well, [laughs] you are in the South! I mean, that’s… that is the South. That’s what, to me, what the South was based on, was race. That’s…

 Min. Robert Campbell - On community activism through RENA (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On landfill employees (clip)

 David Caldwell, Jr. - On growing up on Rogers Road (clip)

 Judy Nunn Snipes and Gertrude Nunn - On living on Rogers Road when it was a wagon road (clip)

Darius Scott (DS): So, before you married Mr. Nunn, you were living over on Rogers Road? Judy Nunn Snipes (JS): Yes. Gertrude Nunn (GN): Exactly. DS: And at that time, it was still the wagon trail? S: Yes. GN: Yeah, uh-huh. DS: And could you talk a little bit about ? GN: I know nothing about a…

 Judy Nunn Snipes and Gertrude Nunn - On the impact of the landfill and activism (clip)

 Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On the beginnings of the landfill and its impact (clip)

 Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On how the landfill destroyed her family's land (clip)

 Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On bedrock and dynamite (clip)

 Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes - On about the efforts to protect her community from the landfill (clip)

 Clyde Perry - On home and chores in Northside Community (clip)

 Clyde Perry - On book access and public library segregation (clip)

 Clyde Perry - On Northside memories and the gymatorium (clip)

 Clyde Perry - On Northside teachers visiting the home (clip)

 Clyde Perry - On gathering at the Rockpile at Northside (clip)

 Clyde Perry - On Bynum Weaver's Store (clip)

 Clyde Perry - On a Northside School day (clip)

 Mildred Council - On her mother (clip)

 Dianne Pledger - Watch over (clip)

 Dianne Pledger - On discipline (clip)

 Dianne Pledger - On the luck of the draw (clip)