People for Community Recovery's Cheryl Johnson is carrying on her mother Hazel Johnson's mission with the next generation of environmental activists.
Johnson wants to transform a vacant school building in her Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on Chicago's Far South Side into a training center for environmental work."We don't have that workforce to be able to clean up our community that has been poisoned for so many years," she said.
MORE | Recycling, solar panels and more: How businesses, government agencies make green by going green Her mother's fight against industrial pollutants brought her face to face with local and state elected officials and even presidents. She earned the title"the Mother of the Environmental Justice Movement" for her efforts.Hazel was motivated to act after seeing too many people in her community battle cancer, asthma, skin and respiratory illnesses. Hazel Johnson's husband, Cheryl's father, died of lung cancer at 41.
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