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• W68599097 abstract "HISTORY OF BAPTIST TOWNLocated just east of downtown Greenwood, Mississippi, the community of Baptist Town derives its name from the Baptist churches that reside within its borders - particularly McKinney Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. Baptist Town is one of several predominantly African American neighborhoods that encircle the downtown area on the south side of the Yazoo River. The Yazoo, which courses through the middle of Greenwood, serves as a symbolic fault line that roughly divides higher-income North Greenwood residents - who are predominantly White - from lower-income South Greenwood residents - who are predominantly Black.Baptist Town's physical boundaries - the Illinois-Central and Columbus-Greenville railroads to the west and south respectively, the Pelucia Bayou to the north, and the Union Cotton Compress to the east - have contributed to a strong sense of identity for residents (see Figure 1). However, these boundaries are also a source of isolation, given that there is no major thoroughfare that passes through the community.Baptist Town has a rich history - a history in which residents take pride. The famous blues artist Robert Johnson once lived there, as did actor Morgan Freeman (WaId 2004; Inside the Actors Studio 2005). Moreover, during the early 1960s Baptist Town residents, along with other Black communities in Greenwood, served as a key driving force of the civil rights movement in Greenwood. Greenwood was of strategic importance to the movement. According to historian Charles Payne, Greenwood's population of twenty-two thousand made one of the largest cities between Memphis to the north and Jackson to the south. A movement beachhead in Greenwood would allow penetration into the surrounding Delta counties with their enormous Black populations (Payne 1996, 132).For much of Greenwood's history, Baptist Town residents worked in the long-staple cotton-production industry, and the then middle-class neighborhood thrived (The Small Town Center 2002). In addition to the cotton market, Greenwood also became a catfish production hub and home to high-end kitchen appliance manufacturer Viking Range Corporation in the late 1980s (Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station n.d.; Welch 2006). However, what was once a thriving middle-class neighborhood has, with time, become a primarily impoverished neighborhood. In the late 1950s, were becoming increasingly irrelevant to the local economy. Each year, cotton production was more mechanized. Small farm owners, largely Black, found increasingly hard to make a go of it (Payne 1996, 134). As the Delta continuously shed jobs and increasing numbers of residents moved out - a direct result of the Great Migration of poor Blacks and Whites from the South between 1900 and the 1970s - Baptist Town entered a period of precipitous decline from which has never recovered. Today, Baptist Town suffers from many challenges, including persistent poverty, lack of employment, low educational attainment, crime, drugs, lack of community connectedness, neglectful landlords, dilapidated housing, and family instability. These challenges are not unique when contrasted with other poor, predominantly Black communities in South Greenwood and the Delta as a whole (The Small Town Center 2002; Gregory 2005).COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTCDP was founded in 2007 by John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University student Jessica Lynn. CDP is a consulting organization that seeks to facilitate the involvement of underserved communities in community and economic development projects. To accomplish this goal, CDP consultants - Harvard University graduate students - draw upon the academic resources of Harvard, such as faculty, research institutes, and students, to provide strategic counsel and to harvest a dynamic network of organizations focused on community and economic development.CDP began working with the Baptist Town community in the fall of 2008. …" @default.
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