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Negro County Home Agents To Meet Here

May 1, 1955

Describes that roughly 100 agents from the Negro County Home and Demonstration Agency would be conducting a meeting in Florence at W.C. Handy School

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State Negro County, Home Agents Meet

May 5, 1955

Describes that the Association of Alabama Negro County and Home Demonstration Agents was to conduct a meeting in Florence and that Dr. E.B. Norton was to be the principal speaker

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Negro County, Home Agents Meeting Here

May 6, 1955

Describes the session that was conducted by the Association of Alabama Negro County and Home Demonstration Agents. Also, includes that Dr. E.B. Norton, president of FSTC, encouraged agents to continue their work and that B.T Thurston, from the Tuskegee Institute, was presented with an award

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Housing Plan For Negroes Abandoned

January 6, 1950

Explains that Black housing projects in the Nashville area were abandoned, under-funded, or destroyed and describes the efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union to gain justice for those residents.

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Racial Zoning Laws In B’ham Under Attack

October 19, 1950

Explains that Birmingham’s racial zoning laws were being challenged by Black citizens in the area who were being supported by the NAACP and were represented by Thurgood Marshall

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Negro Making Farming History In Lauderdale County

December 28, 1950

Conveys images of a man named Rufus Jackson who had obtained a loan from theFHA, which resulted a new home, an improved barn, and the ability to better develop his land

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