Youth Trainees at the People for Community Recovery

Title: Youth Trainees at the People for Community Recovery
Description: A photograph of the People for Community Recovery’s Youth Environmental Training Program participants. Founded in 1979 by environmental justice leader Hazel M. Johnson, the People for Community Recovery (PCR) is a community-led organization that promotes environmental sustainability and safety in Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods. PCR’s work has been at the center of a decades-long grassroots movement to protect Chicago’s Black communities from environmental toxins. PCR’s youth training program gained national recognition in 1992 when Johnson was awarded the President's Environment and Conservation Challenge Award. President George H. W. Bush commended PCR’s founder for “cultivating our human resources to conserve our natural ones,” harkening back to Progressive-era conservation ethics while sidestepping the issue of environmental racism at the heart of PCR’s work.
Creator: Unknown See all items with this value
Publisher: Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature
Date: 2004 See all items with this value
Type: Still image
Format: .jpeg
Subject: people for community recovery; environmental justice; south side of Chicago; grassroots environmental activism; urban gardening See all items with this value
Rights: Public domain

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