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Black figures in environmentalism��

Environmentalism has a difficult history riddled with injustices, but these members of the Black community have not let that stop them from making their voices heard.��

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Dr. Bullard is known as the father of environmental justice. He has 15+ publications on environmental justice issues, has won multiple awards, and the Sierra Club even named an award after him. He is the director of the��, a Texas Southern University center that addresses issues such as systemic racism and structural inequality.��

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Camille Dungy is an “eco-poet” responsible for Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. According to its��, “Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature��writing by African American poets.”��In addition to the anthology, Dungy has also published another anthology, four poetry collections��and two novels, including��. This book metaphorically highlights diversity after growing up in Fort Collins, Colorado, where the city had regulations on what could and could not be planted in one’s garden.��

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George Washington Carver was born into slavery but made black history. He earned his Bachelor of Science at what was then the Iowa State Agricultural School, the first-ever African American to do so. From a young age, he helped farmers keep their crops healthy. His work led to many different forms of synthetic materials, along with making crop rotation a mainstream practice.

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Professor Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement (GBM), a movement based out of Kenya that encourages a holistic approach to sustainability.��She is the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. GBM has planted over 51 million trees thanks to her involvement.����