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Robert Bullard  

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  • Robert bullard is an activist and academic who has been one of the leading voices of the environmental justice movement. While working as an environmental sociologist in the 1970s, Bullard wrote a study called “Solid Waste Sites and the Black Houston Community” that identified a systematic pattern of siting garbage dumps in black neighborhoods. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Bullard, Robert]

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