More than three-dozen environmental justice activists, scholars, educators, lawyers, and community leaders gathered in Memphis to express their solidarity with the local groups and coalitions that are fighting for justice at the Memphis Army Depot.

 

	The predominately black Hamilton High School was built over an open drain that flows from the Memphis Army Depot.
	Memphis environmental justice leader Doris Bradshaw explains how runoff and flooding from the Depot places local residents in harms way.
	Open channels that drain from the Depot meander through Memphis' black community.
	Former Memphis Depot employees explain how environmental racism operated to hurt them and other black workers.
	Dick Gregory delivers a timely keynote speech (punctuated with his special brand of humor) to the gathering and urged all Americans to come together to fight every brand of racism, including environmental racism in Memphis.
	Protesters hold mock funeral in front of Knight Arnold Church of Christ (located across the street from the Depot).
	Rain and bad weather did not deter protesters who hold demonstration in front of the Memphis Depot.
	Rev. Dr. LaSimba Gray, a leader of the Memphis affiliate of the National Congress of Black Churches and pastor of New Sardis Baptist Church, and Dr. Robert D. Bullard sign their most recent books (Mrs. Gray is standing in the background).
	Hamilton High School students hold mock funeral procession through Lincoln Park and the nearby community.
	Protesters take their cause to downtown Memphis and hold Vigil for Environmental Justice in front of the Clifford Davis Federal Building.
	Memphis environmental justice leader Kenneth Bradshaw explains his community's plight in an interview with Channel 13 Fox News.