caption doctoral_advisor thesis_year birth_place influences thesis_title awards fields workplaces birth_date known_for residence spouse image article_title name alma_mater
october 2012 robert o. richards 1976 elba , alabama martin bois luther king , jr. w. e. b. du voluntary in a community decision organization participation : implications for social change and conflict conservation century '' ; building economic alternatives award achievement award ; `` environmental leader of the sociology texas , riverside southern university clark atlanta university university of california 21 december 1946 `` father of environmental justice '' houston , texas linda mckeever bullard robert-d-bullard . jpg robert d. bullard
 robert d. bullard iowa state university
robert d. bullard

robert doyle bullard -lrb- born december 21 , 1946 in elba , alabama -rrb- is dean of the barbara jordan - mickey leland school of public affairs at texas southern university .
previously ware professor of sociology and director of the environmental justice resource center at clark atlanta university , bullard is known as the ` father of environmental justice ' .
he has been a leading campaigner against environmental racism , as well as the foremost scholar of the problem , and of the environmental justice movement which sprung up in the united states in the 1980s .
