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Robert D. Bullard

1946–

United States

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Robert Doyle Bullard (born December 21, 1946) is an American academic who is the former dean of the Barbara Jordan – Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (October 2011 – August 2016) and is currently a distinguished professor at Texas Southern University. Previously Ware Professor of Sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, Bullard is known as the "father of environmental justice". He has been a leading campaigner against environmental racism, as well as the foremost scholar of the problem, and of the Environmental Justice Movement which sprung up in the United States in the 1980s.

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