Fighting toxic emissions in Richmond, California, 1984-2000
By: Henry Clark and Ahmadia Thomas ; with an introduction by Luke W. Cole. Interviews conducted by Carl Wilmsen in 1999 and 2000. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Thomas, Ahmadia, 1928-; Wilmsen, Carl.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2003
Subjects: Clark, Henry, 1944-; Thomas, Ahmadia, 1928-; West County Toxics Coalition.; Chevron U.S.A. Inc.; Environmentalists -- California -- Interviews.; Environmental justice -- California -- Richmond.; Air -- Pollution -- California -- Richmond.; Green movement -- California -- Richmond.; Point Isabel (Richmond, Calif.)
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Environmental justice and grassroots environmentalism in the San Francisco Bay Area oral history series.; Henry Clark and the West County Toxics Coalition.; From welfare rights to environmental justice.
Description: boyhood in Richmond, California, undergraduate education, and early career; the work of the West County Toxics Coalition, 1984-present; the national and international context of WCTC's work.

growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; volunteer for VISTA, 1970-1972; becoming active in the Citizens Action League and ACORN; forming West County Toxics Coalition, 1982 and other volunteer work; cleaning up Point Isabel; chaplain with the Richmond Police Dept.; negotiating with Chevron; demonstrating for Jesse Jackson in the South and other action; present condition of the environment in Richmond and cooperating with other environmental groups.