Environmental justice

Overview

The Community Coalition for Social Justice (CCSJ) is a coalition of assorted Morgantown, WV area locals and organizations focused on promoting the principles of social, environmental, and economic justice and respect for all persons in the Morgantown area and surrounding communities. This collection contains materials collected and created by members of CCSJ from 1999-2024.

Overview

Dr. Barbara Howe worked at West Virginia University in a variety of different positions between 1980 and her retirement in 2009, including as associate professor of history, head of the public history program, and director of the Center for Women’s Studies. Prevalent subjects present in the collection include historical preservation, environmental activism, and politics in the Morgantown and broader West Virginia area.

Scope and Contents Records of the Mon Valley Green Space Coalition, an environmental advocacy group. MVGSC materials include correspondence, agendas, reports, by-laws,financial information, newspaper clippings, volunteer timesheets, construction drawings, trifold promotional panels, project photographs and slides, event materials, AV materials, and trail maps. Additionally, there are materials for member groups such as the City of Morgantown, West Virginia University, Chestnut Ridge Regional Park and Sand...

Scope and Contents Records of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC), a social and environmental justice organization that operated out of Huntington, WV (circa 1987 to 2022). Its activities are documented through the materials in this collection; formats include audiovisual materials, digital files, the organization’s website, printed materials, ephemera, photographs, newspaper clippings, newsletters, reports, correspondence, legal briefs, general office files, artifacts, and posters. Subjects...

Scope and Contents Records of the West Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club, an American environmental preservation organization. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, audiovisual materials, and other records of the Chapter’s operations. This collection also includes one box of records from the Potomac Chapter, from which the West Virginian Chapter was formed. The materials of this collection are generally related to two topics: administration and activism. ...

Overview The papers of David Elkinton, environmentalist and author of Fighting to Protect the Highlands: The First Forty Years of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. Includes resource materials collected for his book, such as research notes, video and audio tapes of interviews, photographs, and historical records of the environmental activist organization West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, including correspondence, court papers, and issues...