The environmental justice movement brings together all elements of the social justice movement, espousing a more holistic definition of environment that embraces public health, economic development, housing, energy and transportation as well as preservation of natural resources. Environment is defined as where we live, work, learn and play. As children of the larger civil rights movement, environmental justice advocates organize from the bottom up and seek to cultivate and empower community-based leadership. The African American community has a long history of struggle in pursuit of justice. Research, communication, technical expertise and strategic grassroots organizing fueled by moral imperative have resulted in the movement that transformed America
