So Burns told Ward that his sons, Randall and Timothy, would spray the oil along rural North Carolina roads. So Hunt pursued another option: dumping 10,000 truckloads of contaminated dirt in a soybean field in rural Warren County, a largely poor area that was nearly 60 percent Black. So Burwell assembled a small group of Black women to fight against the dump. [As in the ’60s, protesters rally in Warren County]But the women of Warren County had his back. In Warren County, a battle had been lost.

Source: Washington Post April 06, 2021 11:15 UTC