Waste [electronic resource] : 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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Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret |
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