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The Partners for Environmental Justice (PEJ) Records includes publications, administrative records, community outreach, photographs, and web content by or relating to PEJ and documenting the activities of the environmental justice group. Materials date from 1978 to 2016.
Partners for Environmental Justice (PEJ) is an environmental justice group located in Raleigh, Cary, and Garner, North Carolina. PEJ began as a ministry committee of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church of Raleigh, North Carolina; Trinity Episcopal Church of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina; and later St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of Cary, North Carolina. PEJ was instrumental in the origination of the Walnut Creek Wetland Center.
Partners for Environmental Justice (PEJ) is an environmental justice group located in Raleigh, Cary, and Garner, North Carolina. PEJ began as a ministry committee of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church of Raleigh, North Carolina; Trinity Episcopal Church of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina; and later St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of Cary, North Carolina. PEJ was instrumental in the origination of the Walnut Creek Wetland Center.
In 1996, parishioners from St. Ambrose Episcopal Church in Raleigh and the Trinity Episcopal Church in Fuquay-Varina formed an environmental justice committee to improve the health of the Walnut Creek wetland and to combat environmental injustice in the area. In 1997, members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cary joined them, and the group changed their name to Episcopalians for Environmental Justice. In 1999, as the committee had joined with environmental conservation groups, North Carolina State University experts, and business and community leaders, they changed their name to Partners for Environmental Justice.
Maxine Highsmith chaired the first environmental justice committee. In September 1996, the Steering Committee approved five standing committees: Finance chaired by James Revis; Public Relations and Marketing chaired by Carolyn Winters; Publications, chaired by Don McCoy; Projects, chaired by Page Myers; and Education chaired by Norman Camp. In January 1997, Maxine Highsmith resigned as chair of the committee and Normal Camp stepped in.
Partners for Environmental Justice developed Walnut Creek 2000 as a grassroots interracial project designed to restore wetlands in Southeast Raleigh and to provide economic, educational, and beautification benefits to the area’s predominantly African American community. Walnut Creek 2000 was originally directed by Father Frank Gose, priest at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church and Trinity Episcopal Church. For more information about Walnut Creek 2000, see https://projects.ncsu.edu/project/ciwetlands/wc/partners.htm
The Walnut Creek Wetlands Center (WCWC) is the cornerstone of Walnut Creek 2000. NC State University’s Natural Learning Initiative collaborated with Frank Harmon Architect on the design of WCWC, which provides and educational and recreational resource located on the city of Raleigh’s Greenway system and managed by the Raleigh Department of Recreation and Parks. For more information about the WCWC, see https://naturalearning.org/walnut-creek-wetland-center/
Partners for Environmental Justice (PEJ) Records includes publications, administrative records, community outreach, photographs, and web content by or relating to PEJ, documenting the activities of the environmental justice group. Materials date from 1978 to 2016.
This collection is arranged into five series: Publications and Reference Materials; Administrative Records; Community Engagement Records; Photographs and Slides; and Web Content.
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The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.
[Identification of item], Partners for Environmental Justice Records, MC 00630, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Norman Camp Papers (MC 00569)
Gift of Partners for Environmental justice, 2017 August (Accession no. 2017-0248). Web content harvested using the Internet Archive's Archive-It services one time in 2017.
Processed by: Jennifer Baker June 2018 with assistance from Liz Wardzinski. Archived web content processed by Liz Bell, 2020 January.
The collection is organized into five principal series:
This series includes publications by PEJ, organizations doing similar work, and news publications that highlight the work of PEJ or other environmental groups. This series also contains educational handbooks and pamphlets that were distributed to assist individuals in helping with the environmental cause. Materials date from 1978 to 2003.
Materials are arranged in alphabetical order.
This series documents the work of the Partners for Environmental Justice (PEJ) Board. This includes meeting minutes and agendas from 1995-2016, budgets and expense records, efforts to secure funding, by-laws, the nonprofit status application, articles of incorporation, operating procedures, miscellaneous correspondence, and director’s reports. This series also contains documents from the land acquisition committee of the Board, organizational chart and goals, and information on the group’s membership. Materials date from 1985 to 2016.
Arranged in alphabetical order.
This series documents the interactions that the Partners for Environmental Justice (PEJ) had with the local community. The contents consist of records between collaborative groups such as the NC State University College of Design’s Natural Learning Initiative and the NC State University Forestry Department as well as institutions such as Meredith College and UNC-Chapel Hill. Additionally, these materials document correspondence and interactions with members of the Raleigh City Council and its interested boards, as well as many Raleigh City and North Carolina State departments. The series also includes community outreach documents that include programs such as community meetings, community participation workshops, community clean-up days, as well as announcements of events.
Additionally, this series contains information regarding proposed development in the area of Raleigh that Partners for Environmental Justice identified as a location for their work as well as information concerning the populations within that area. This includes information about underserviced populations and area churches. The group also kept records of activities in Raleigh and the surrounding area that had similar conditions to their selected piece of land. Materials date from 1997 to 2003.
Arranged in alphabetical order.
This series documents many of the clean-up and community outreach projects of the Partners for Enviornmental Justice. The photographs date from 1998 to 2004.
This series includes a website for the Walnut Creek 2000 Project. The NC State University Libraries scheduled this website to be captured one time in August 2017.
This is the official website of the Walnut Creek 2000 Project. The NC State University Libraries has scheduled this website to be captured one time in August 2017.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. Because of the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access will require additional advanced notice. Copies of digital files may be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room upon request.
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[Identification of item], Partners for Environmental Justice Records, MC 00630, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.