Page 4 - Reflections On Pine

Understanding our community & our Civil Rights History
• Economics
– Phillips Packing Company 19th Century
– Secured Gov. contracts WWI & WWII
– At it’s peak – employed over 10,000 people
– Other industries in Cambridge
• Canning, seafood, vegetable processing & industrial
manufacturing
– Total population was around 10,000 people for the City of Cambridge
– Though segregated, blacks and whites worked together