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Activity 5.2 Shingle Mountain Case Study

  Problem: Dallas has had a reputation of zoning racism for as long as the slavery emancipation acknowledgement of Juneteenth. You can see this in Paul Quinn College’s map of “Poisoned by Zip Code” (2020). The Joppa community and its surrounding neighbors are within approximately 2 miles of several industrial plants and cites including Shingle Mountain. Marsha Jackson is a voice and advocate who went unheard for several months, in regards to her extremely close neighbor, the horrendous polluting illegal shingle recycling company and their infamous Shingle Mountain. I mmediate issues and what calls for action-oriented answers : For two years, Marsha Jackson and about 100 of her neighbors have had to breathe in the toxic air of the crushed shingles and watch from their yard as the pile of shingles kept growing to reach the height of a six-story building, approximately 60 feet tall and stretching more than a city block (Washington Post, 2020). They eventually came to name this ...