In 1902, which was only a generation before RobertClark was born, Roosevelt went on a bear-hunting trip in the state of Mississippi, at the invitation of the governor.
But Robert Bullard, who heads the Environmental Justice Resource Centre at Clark Atlanta University, sees the shipment of waste from one county to a poorer, blacker one as part of a longstanding pattern that sees minority communities disproportionately burdened with hazards.