Word: coops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three-room shack in Kingsland, Ark., the hard-pressed Cash family moved to Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes at supper we had to fill up on turnip greens and sometimes at breakfast it was just fatback and biscuits-but that...
...Negro successfully robs a bank instead of a chicken coop we can honestly claim to be emancipated." The speaker is a character in this flawed but forceful first novel. The scene is a Southern city in the 1930s. For the Negroes who dwell there in remorseless squalor, a measure of freedom and manhood can be earned only by breaking the white man's law. For a bright, ambitious Negro, the best way to prosperity is not through business or the professions but in the illicit sporting life: gambling and the rackets...
Passim is an intimate little place, hidden in the alley between the Coop and the Coop Bookstore. A coffee shop and book store combined, it is run by a French lady, Mrs. Renée Juda, who has wanted to start such a café for a long time. She specializes in contemporary and modern Romance language paperbacks, with a small German section. "I could not have a book store without Brecht," Mrs. Juda says...
Because the Coop itself is in debt, it cannot be of very much direct monetary aid to the community. "To expand, the Coop had to borrow from local banks and the John Hancock Company. The terms of those loans expressly forbid us to invest in any other businesses," Brown explains. The Coop can, however, give about $5000 to charity each year, which it donates through the United Appeal...
...looking into ways for the Coop to help the larger community in ways other than money. Besides the proposed employment plans, the COC will attempt to set up a reciprocal agreement with area merchants, such that the Coop will recommend customers to other stores in the community if it can't supply a desired item, and vice-versa. May is quick to point out that the Coop's new ideas do not just involve the black community. "We are trying to establish more extensive relations with