[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: "South Memphis [TN] residents say old defense depot is making them sick"

[Lenny Siegel]

FOX13 Investigates: South Memphis residents say old defense depot is making them sick

By Kayla Solomon
FOX13 Memphis (TN)
February 7, 2023

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Since the late 1950s, three generations of Alcy Ball families have lived on Compton Avenue. They’ll tell you it was once home to Black middle-class families who built their homes from the ground up.

“When I was a kid, it was a great neighborhood. Just like now, most of us knew everybody so it was a family-oriented neighborhood,” said Jasmine Scales, who lives in her childhood home on Compton Avenue with her daughter.

Now, the population is falling while poverty is rising.

Those who could afford to get out did.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.fox13memphis.com/health/fox13-investigates-south-memphis-residents-say-old-defense-depot-is-making-them-sick/article_0f4e61ba-a6d2-11ed-ab5e-4fdb878a97c8.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel at cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)