Carrie Barefoot Dickerson (died 2006) was an American activist who led citizen efforts to stop construction of the proposed Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant in Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

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Dickerson first learned of the proposal in a news article in May 1973, and formed the group, Citizen's 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.

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

See also

• Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
  Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
  The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than 80 anti-nuclear groups which have acted to oppose nuclear power or nuclear weapons, or both, in the United States. These groups include the Abalone Alliance, Clamshell Alliance, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research,...
  
  
• Anti-nuclear protests in the United States

Further reading

• Dickerson, Carrie B. and Patricia Lemon (1995). Black Fox: Aunt Carrie's War Against the Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant ISBN 1571780092
• Rogers County Woman Who Fought Black Fox Plant Left Lasting Legacy