Not in My Backyard : How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the Fight to Save Green Springs Brian Balogh

Not in My Backyard : How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the Fight to Save Green Springs – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780300253788,9780300274400,0300253788,0300274408

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300253788
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300253788
• Author(s): Brian Balogh

This social history of local political activism tells the story of the decades-long fight to save Green Springs, Virginia, illuminating the economic tradeoffs of protecting the environment, the origins of NIMBYism, the changing nature of local control, and the surprising power of history to advance public policy.

Rae Ely faced long odds when she launched a campaign in 1970 to stop a prison, then a strip mine, in Green Springs. The local political machine supported both projects, promising jobs for impoverished Louisa County, Virginia. But Ely and her allies prevailed by repurposing the same tactics used by the Civil Rights movement—the appeal to federal agencies and courts to circumvent local control—and by using new historical interpretations to create the first rural National Historic Landmark District.

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