Migrant farm-worker lawsuits, not mainstream environmentalism, drove the U.S. DDT ban

Evidence

The farm-worker movement of the 1960s, led by Cesar Chavez, was perhaps the first nationally known effort by people of color to address an environmental issue. Much of the activity took the form of union organizing drives. For instance, the United Farm Workers (UFW) included in its initial organizing and contractual demands the ban of certain dangerous pesticides, including DDT. Union contracts in the late 1960s prohibited the use of such pesticides, and the lawsuits that ultimately led the U.S. government to ban the chemical outright were brought by migrant farm-workers. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 161

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to labor/environment threads and contests the usual Carson-centered story of DDT’s ban — the ban was won by farm-worker organizing. — connects to: Six farmworkers’ lawsuit drove the national DDT ban — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 1115; Legal migrants can be rendered illegal to make them disposable labor — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 655
• SEED: Angle: the ‘workplace as the first environment’ framing — how pesticides tie farm labor to environmental justice, useful for Eco-Justice pedagogy reading.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Six farmworkers’ lawsuit drove the national DDT ban #corroborates (1.00) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 1115
• Legal migrants can be rendered illegal to make them disposable labor #expands (0.72) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 655