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Houston was redlined in the 1930s. The Holmes Road dump opened in Sunnyside in 1937. The first streets the city paved led to it. The Reed Road dump came in 1964 — and an incinerator added in 1967 at Holmes Road to burn 800 tons of garbage a day.
In the '90s, identifying this pattern of deliberate racist discrimination, @DrBobBullard would write, "Black Houston has become the dumping grounds for the city’s household garbage."
Nearly 100 years later, @leahbink writes, Sunnyside residents like Efram Jernigan are hard at work writing a "new narrative," reclaiming a productive relationship with the land and devising "homegrown solutions to decades of discrimination." https://onebreathhou.org/newsroom/2020/12/sunnyside-houston-texas-environmental-health-cumulative-impacts/
Here, @zoyamiddleton shows how redlining led to environmental burdens and crises of health in historically Black communities in Houston like Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens. https://onebreathhou.org/newsroom/2020/01/how-the-cancer-cluster-in-fifth-ward-goes-back-to-the-racist-government-policy-of-redlining/
