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During the 1990s, residents in Chester, Pennsylvania, a predominantly poor African-American community, organized a movement to stop the ongoing permitting of waste treatment facilities in their city. The decades-long history of increasing pollution, grievances and the grassroots struggle to halt the city's clustering of commercial and hazardous waste facilities is chronicled in this documentary.

Watch • 26:46
Justice in Chester
Justice in Chester
Discover the importance of community involvement and the power of grassroots efforts.
Special: 26:46
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
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