Title
9903 Colvin Boulevard, Lois Gibbs (back row left) speaking to residents at the Love Canal Homeowners' Association offices about the Environmental Protection Agency's announcement regarding the chromosome damage study, Love Canal neighborhood, Niagara Falls, NY, May 17, 1980
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
Identifier
MS100.D.29
LIB-UA003
Citation
Ploughman, Penelope D., “9903 Colvin Boulevard, Lois Gibbs (back row left) speaking to residents at the Love Canal Homeowners' Association offices about the Environmental Protection Agency's announcement regarding the chromosome damage study, Love Canal neighborhood, Niagara Falls, NY, May 17, 1980,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed November 28, 2024, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/16179.
