The Underdevelopment of the Needmore Community

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Abstract

In this talk, author, photographer, and retired educator Jerry Boyd Jones reflects on the history of Starkville’s Needmore Community. Needmore, the oldest African American community in Starkville, has been central to the story and life of Starkville and surrounding areas for over a century. Through the efforts and ingenuity of its residents, Needmore became a center of culture and life in Starkville despite segregation and limited resources. Yet in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Needmore was targeted for removal by an Urban Renewal program that displaced many of its residents. The history of Needmore is a story of triumph in adverse circumstances, but also a story of intentional underdevelopment, important to both the past and the present of Starkville.

Time Period

2020-2029

Format (original)

MOV

Format (digital)

MOV

Asset Type

Presentation

Object Type

Moving Image

Repository

Manuscripts Unit, Archives and Special Collections Division, Mississippi State University Libraries

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

Subjects

Urban renewal; Communities; Civil rights; Business enterprises, Black; Jones, Jerry Boyd; Community development

Keywords

Black communities; African American communities; Needmore Community

Rights

Mississippi State University Libraries has a non-exclusive license to host and display the video on the internet via our institutional repository. All rights are retained by the creator, Jerry Boyd Jones.

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