Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Reader 1
Rita Roberts
Reader 2
Julie Liss
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2018 Laura M Woods
Abstract
In 1969 a German company, Badishe Anilin und Sodafabrik (BASF), sited a petrochemical facility in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Protests broke out, largely led by Charles E. Fraser, a man well-known for developing Beaufort County's Hilton Head Island into a famous Southern resort community. However, Beaufort's black residents largely supported the construction of the facility, an act that has been traditionally reduced to their attempts to secure jobs. Given that the majority of Beaufort's black residents lived in such poor conditions that they suffered myriad diseases, this paper argues that black Americans were instead engaged in ecological struggles within the confines of their homes.
Recommended Citation
Woods, Laura, "Beaufort County & the BASF Controversy: Reframing the Struggle Against Poverty as Environmental Resistance" (2018). Scripps Senior Theses. 1222.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1222
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
