For six weeks in 1982, activists and local residents gathered in Warren County, near the town of Afton, to protest the delivery of 40,000 cubic tons of contaminated soil, laced with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),to the hazardous waste landfill that was placed in their community. The PCBs would eventually leached into the soil and contaminate the water supply.
Credit: The Jerome Friar Photographic Collection and Related Materials, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, used with permission.