Environmental justice activism today parallels the civil rights movement’s uphill struggle

Evidence

The odds seem stacked against those who militate for environmental justice, but this was precisely the case during the civil rights era, when activists persisted and won in the face of widespread murders and other unpunished violence, as well as in the face of hostile legal systems that protected segregation, lynching, unjust imprisonment, and marginalization. — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1260

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1260