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Elected in 1967, Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes’ platform on the environment stressed a people-first approach that we now call environmental justice. Environmental justice means providing the benefits of environmentalism to everyone in equitable ways.
- Carl B. Stokes and the 1969 River Fire - U.S. National Park Service
By the 1980s, the environmental justice movement helped...
- Carl B. Stokes: Ground-breaking Cleveland Mayor - U.S. National Park ...
Carl B. Stokes was the first African American elected mayor...
- Carl B. Stokes and the 1969 River Fire - U.S. National Park Service
By the 1980s, the environmental justice movement helped broaden environmentalism. It focuses on how poor environmental conditions affect low-income and minority communities more than others. Part of Stokes' legacy is a reminder to think about how we address issues to benefit us all.
26 de feb. de 2021 · Stokes was at the start of the Environmental Justice movement. One concerned with the effects of pollution on the environment AND the people who were most affected by pollution, predominantly poor minority communities. Stokes goal was to help the people who were harmed by the changing environment.
This paper argues that the city has an environmental as well as a social dimension which urban politics and planning must incorporate. The movement for social justice is shown to necessarily entail a movement for environmental justice. The social and the ecological interpenetrate.
The burning river became the emblem of all that was wrong with the urban environment in Cleveland and in all of industrial America.Carl Stokes, the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, had come into office in Cleveland a year earlier with energy and ideas.
