'Unintended consequences': The rubber industry's toxic legacy in Akron
This story is published in partnership with Belt Magazine and is part of a series supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. This story also appeared in Belt Magazine. In the winter of 1946, Perkins Pringle boarded the first leg of a 950-mile train ride from Durant, Mississippi, to Akron, Ohio—the Rubber Capital of the World.