Robert D. Bullard
American sociologist known as the father of environmental justice · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1946 · age 79
Robert Doyle Bullard is an American academic who is the former dean of the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs and is currently a distinguished professor at Texas Southern University.
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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.
