U.S. National Institutes of Health

Dr. Dorothy Trice conducts a seminar sponsored by the Brooklyn Subcommittee on Lead Poisoning, New York Amsterdam News, May 9, 1970

Courtesy Division of Rare Manuscript Collection, Cornell University Library

The Brooklyn Subcommittee on Lead Poisoning was one of many local groups that worked to educate citizens on the dangers of lead. About 100 community workers from various anti-poverty agencies and community organizations in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood attended this lead poisoning seminar.

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