View of 9903 Colvin Boulevard with Lois Gibbs (back row left) speaking to a crowd of residents at the Love Canal Homeowners' Association offices about the Environmental Protection Agency's announcement regarding the chromosome damage study of the Love Canal neighborhood, Niagara Falls, New York, May 17, 1980

Gibbs, Lois Marie

Love Canal Homeowners Association

Community activists

Political participation

Public health--Citizen participation

United States. Environmental Protection Agency

Housing and health

Hazardous waste sites

Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)

Caption: On May 17, 1980, the EPA announced from DC via the mass media that one of the residents they had tested in a pilot chromosome damage study showed some chromosome damage. Two EPA officials were subsequently "taken hostage" inside the Love Canal Homeowners Association.

A group of people is gathered outside a small building with a sign above the door that reads "Love Canal Homeowners Assn." Several individuals, including Lois Gibbs, stand on the steps addressing the crowd, while the audience listens from the yard; photographed by Penelope D. Ploughman.

Ploughman, Penelope, 1955-

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Libraries

1980-05-17

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