Carrie Barefoot Dickerson

Carrie Barefoot Dickerson (born May 24, 1917, Okmulgee, Oklahoma; died November 17, 2006, Claremore, Oklahoma) was an American activist who led citizen efforts to stop construction of the proposed Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant in Oklahoma.

Dickerson, a self-employed eldercare administrator, nutritionist and community activist retired from schoolteaching,^[1] first learned of the proposal in a news article in May 1973, and formed the group Citizens' Action for Safe Energy (CASE). Local citizens feared waste from the nuclear plant would lead to birth defects and other health problems for those who lived nearby. Following years of legal action and protests, it was announced in February 1982 that the plant would not be built.^[2]^[3]

Carrie Barefoot Dickerson is featured in the book Women of Spirit: Stories of Courage from the Women Who Lived Them by Katherine Martin.^[4] The Carrie Dickerson Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the Oklahoma Sustainability Network, is named after her.^[5] Dickerson died in 2006.^[6]

References

↑ Hattaway, Rebecca (November 18, 2006). "Anti-nuclear activist dies". The Claremore Daily Progress. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
↑ Energy officials say nuclear power comeback not likely to happen
↑ Carrie Dickerson Foundation
↑ Women of Spirit By Katherine Martin
↑ Carrie Barefoot Dickerson Award Presentation
↑ Carrie Barefoot Dickerson

Anti-nuclear movement in the United States

General	Anti-nuclear groups in the US California movement Great Peace March Nuclear history of the United States Nuclear power in the US Canceled nuclear plants in the US Nuclear weapons and the US Protests in the US Anti-nuclear advocates in the US

Organizations and groups	Abalone Alliance Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility Clamshell Alliance Committee for Nuclear Responsibility Corporate Accountability International Critical Mass Energy Project Friends of the Earth Greenpeace USA Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Mothers for Peace Musicians United for Safe Energy Nevada Desert Experience Nuclear Control Institute Nuclear Information and Resource Service Physicians for Social Responsibility Plowshares Movement Public Citizen Shad Alliance Sierra Club Three Mile Island Alert Women Strike for Peace

People	Daniel Berrigan William J. Bichsel Larry Bogart Pierce Brosnan Helen Caldicott Barry Commoner Frances Crowe Carrie Barefoot Dickerson Paul M. Doty Jane Fonda Randall Forsberg John Gofman Paul Gunter John Hall Jackie Hudson Sam Lovejoy Amory Lovins Gregory Minor Hermann Joseph Muller Ralph Nader Graham Nash Linus Pauling Eugene Rabinowitch Phil Radford Bonnie Raitt Martin Sheen Karen Silkwood Thomas Louie Vitale Harvey Wasserman Victor Weisskopf

Main protest sites	Black Fox Bodega Bay Diablo Canyon Indian Point Lawrence Livermore Montague Naval Base Kitsap Nevada Test Site Rancho Seco Rocky Flats San Onofre Seabrook Shoreham Three Mile Island Trojan Vermont Yankee White House Peace Vigil Y-12 Weapons Plant Yankee Rowe

Books	Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978 The Cult of the Atom The Doomsday Machine (book) Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy Killing Our Own Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System Nuclear Politics in America We Almost Lost Detroit

Films	Atomic Ed and the Black Hole The China Syndrome Countdown to Zero Dark Circle Nuclear Tipping Point Silkwood

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 75560017

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Carrie Barefoot Dickerson

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