Gauley Bridge, West Virginia
Gauley Bridge, West Virginia : Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, was the scene of a landmark case of environmental racism - one involving a conflict between the powerful and the powerless, between African-Americans and whites in 1930 to 1931. A contracting company, Rinehart and Dennis, recruited nonunion workers from the Deep South to drill the three-mile Hawk's Nest Tunnel through Gauley Mountain