Refinery Town cid_3466 in 1992 and traces developments

in 1992 and traces developments through General Assembly 2006

the death of Martin Luther King

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This massive denial of brutal reality profoundly warps society’s ideas about goodness and justice

Refinery Town cid_3466 in 1992 and traces developmentsHome to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working class city of one hundred thousand suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public services. It had one of the highest homicide rates per capita in the country and a jobless rate twice the national average. But in 2012, when veteran labor reporter Steve Early moved from New