Dr. King Said Segregation Harms Us All. Environmental Research Shows He Was Right. - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/climate/mlk-segregation-pollution.html
[Martin Luther King] died before the modern environmental movement, but a growing body of research around pollution and health shows that his belief about segregation hurting everyone extends to the environment as well. Many American cities that are more racially divided have higher levels of pollution than less segregated cities. As a result, both whites and minorities who live in less integrated communities are exposed to higher levels of pollution than those who live in more integrated areas.
“The price that America must pay for the continued oppression of the Negro is the price of its own destruction,” Dr. King wrote in a 1962 address,