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Montgomery--Mississippi, Tribbett and Brick Factory; “Strike City” (Lucile Montgomery papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 44, Reel 2, Segment 25)

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Montgomery, Lucile

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Many of the documents in this folder pertain to 1965 plans to build a brick factory in Mississippi, in part with War on Poverty funds, in order to train local people--who had been evicted from plantations--to build homes, thus developing job skills, providing employment, and establishing better housing in one fell swoop. A Mississippi Development Foundation was proposed to handle this project. The project was especially designed for Tribbett, Mississippi, ("Strike City") where evicted, striking agricultural workers were living on an abandoned military base in tents through the winter. Housing plans were derailed by the fact that white butane gas distributors refused to provide heating gas to the African American Tent City residents. When the brick factory/housing project failed to get off the ground, Frank and Jean Smith arranged to get the distributorship of Fuller cosmetics, sold door to door by Tent City residents. They hoped that, through this enterprise, MFDP candidates and the l
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Keywords

  1. Agriculture
  2. Alder, Tom
  3. Blackburn, Cleo W
  4. Brown, Peter
  5. Brown, Wilson
  6. Burns, Thelma
  7. Carter, Hodding
  8. Carthen, Sallie Mae
  9. Cerbone, Anthony
  10. Community Centers
  11. Crudup, Arlbon
  12. Davis, Ruby
  13. Delta Ministry
  14. Dillard, Virginia
  15. Douglas, Maggie Lee
  16. Durbahan, Walter
  17. Education
  18. Employment
  19. Eviction
  20. Feinstein, Otto
  21. Fiore, Marion
  22. Gibson, James
  23. Gibson, Quentell
  24. Goodman, Percival
  25. Griffin, Tom
  26. Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
  27. Hart, John
  28. Hassler, Alfred, 1910
  29. Hatch, C. Richard
  30. Hayes, Curtis
  31. Head Start Programs
  32. Herzstein, Robert
  33. Housing
  34. Hughes, Stuart H
  35. Hunter, David R. (David Romeyn), 1916 2000
  36. Hunter, George
  37. Jencks, Christopher
  38. Johnson, Lula Bell
  39. Karter, Tom
  40. Labor Unions
  41. Lauter, Paul
  42. Lincoln University (Pa.)
  43. Long, Worth W
  44. March Against Fear (James Meredith March)
  45. March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
  46. Meredith, James, 1933
  47. Milgram, Morris
  48. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  49. Mississippi Freedom Labor Union
  50. Mitchell, Neil
  51. Montgomery, Kenneth F
  52. Morris, Jesse
  53. National Urban League
  54. Ornati, Oscar
  55. Poor People's Corporation
  56. Public Welfare
  57. Reynolds, Harriet
  58. Robinson, Eddie
  59. Rockefeller, Rodman
  60. Rust College
  61. Sharecroppers
  62. Shaw, John D
  63. Shirley, Thelma
  64. Slaiman, Donald, 1919
  65. Smiley, Glenn E
  66. Smith, Frank
  67. Smith, Jean
  68. Somers, John
  69. Stein, John
  70. Stein, Robert
  71. Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901 1995
  72. Steptoe, E. W
  73. Stern, Phillip
  74. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  75. Sylvester, John Henry
  76. Turnbow, Hartman
  77. Turner, Cornelius
  78. Vietnam War, 1961 1975
  79. Voter Registration
  80. War On Poverty
  81. Ware, Bill
  82. Waskow, Arthur Ocean, 1933
  83. Weber, Palmer
  84. Wilcox, Roger
  85. Williams, Cleveland
  86. Wilson, Luke