Freedom Hill | Environmental Racism

REPORTER: State and federal officials defended the decision to stop protesters and to store PCB here.

(crowd clamoring) (crowd clamoring) (clamoring) PURIFOY: Environmental racism is the targeting of communities of color for various forms of environmental harm.

There's really an important component to environmental racism that I think is really critical to the stories of communities like Princeville, and that is this sense of land devaluation and protection of white property.

Black folks weren't intended ever to have property and land in the United States.

We were property.