Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret / Catherine Coleman Flowers ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson.

"Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flowers, Catherine Coleman (Author)
Other Authors: Stevenson, Bryan (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, 2020.
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Physical Description:xi, 208 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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