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Relatives blame prolonged exposure at wood-treatment facility for Carbondale family’s cancers

  • By Clarissa Cowley
  • October 20, 2022

On the verge of the Great Depression, Fredrick Tisdale, one of the only black farmers in Carbondale, moved north.

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