Lois Gibbs speaking to Love Canal residents in front of the Love Canal Homeowners' Association offices about announcement regarding chromosome damage

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Title

Subject

Penelope D. Ploughman Love Canal Collection

Gibbs, Lois Marie

Love Canal Homeowners Association

Community activists

Political participation

Public health -- Citizen participation

Description

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. 2 EPA officials were subsequently ""taken hostage"" inside the Love Canal Homeowners Association

Creator

Ploughman, Penelope D.

Publisher

State University of New York at Buffalo

University Archives

Date

May 17, 1980

Rights

Contact the University Archives: http://library.buffalo.edu/archives/

Format

0.927 x 1.36 inches

Type

Image

Still Image

Identifier

MS100.D.29

Date Created

1/28/2009

Medium

Slides

Collection

Love Canal Images

Citation

Ploughman, Penelope D., “Lois Gibbs speaking to Love Canal residents in front of the Love Canal Homeowners' Association offices about announcement regarding chromosome damage,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed September 27, 2021, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/16179.