Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel PrizeThe MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist's riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America&8217;s most vulnerable&10;A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020&10;Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur genius, grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that&8217;s been called &8220;Bloody Lowndes&8221; because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it&8217;s Ground Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers&8217;s life&8217;s work-a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth.