The Love Canal Mothers Start a Movement | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Learn how a group of women from the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, documented evidence of serious health problems in their community and identified decades-old industrial chemical contamination as the root cause in these clips adapted from Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal | American Experience. The Love Canal Homeowners Association pushed their political representatives to take action on their behalf and, after several years of activism, convinced state and federal officials to pay for the evacuation and relocation of all the families who chose to leave.