Word: co-op
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retail business-using money from a national fund-raising campaign, the co-op has made loans to some of the small-scale black businesses in the area...
...raising-after the National Council of Negro Women gave the co-op 50 pigs, the farmers set up a "pig bank." Farmers may borrow one of the pigs if they return a certain portion of the first litter to the central pig supply...
education-in a region where barely ten per cent of the black children even finish high school, the co-op has obtained grants to send black students to college...
farming-last year the co-op raised cotton, soybeans, and vegetables on its initial 40 acres. The income from the cotton and soybeans will go toward repaying the $12,000 mortgage left on the land, while the vegetables were distributed to the families...
housing-the co-op has so far built three low-cost houses, and is hoping for a Federal grant to let it develop 27 other housing sites. More than 95 per cent of the county's blacks live in houses officially classified as "dilapidated and deteriorating." and some 100 families were evicted from tenant homes on white plantations last year...