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Understanding our Community & our Civil Rights History • Unequal Treatment
– Phillips Packing Co. closes due to loss of contracts
• Movement in the city to protect white jobs vs black jobs
• Unemployment reaches as high as 70% among African Americans
• The loss of jobs created an environment for racial issues to surface
• The main concern seemed to be jobs, housing and education
• In the mid to late 50’s there was no real focus on desegregation in Cambridge
