Update: Cleaning Up America’s ‘Dirty Secret’ in the Black Belt [BillMoyers.com]

Samantha Sangenito 9/8/174:00 AM

For more than 15 years, Catherine Coleman Flowers has worked as an advocate in America’s Black Belt, where improper sewage treatment is putting people at risk of diseases usually found only in the developing world.

Flowers has deep roots in the rich soil of Alabama. She grew up in a small community between Selma and Montgomery, in Lowndes County. The rural county, known as “Bloody Lowndes” during the civil rights era, had a long and violent history of whites retaliating against black residents to maintain segregation and prevent voter registration. It was no accident that Martin Luther King Jr. chose a route straight through Bloody Lowndes as he led the famous march from Selma over the Edmund Pettus Bridge to Montgomery in 1965.

[For more of this story, written by Gail Ablow, go to http://billmoyers.com/story/ma...e-catherine-flowers/]

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