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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED134392 AUTHOR: Zippert, John
TITLE: The Minority Peoples Council on the Tennessee
Tombigbee Waterway: A Citizen's Response to Rural
Development and Industrialization.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1977
NOTE: 9 p.; Paper presented at the Rural Sociology Section,
Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists (Atlanta,
Georgia, February 8, 1977)
ABSTRACT: The Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway (TTW),
connecting
the Port of Mobile, Alabama with Appalachia and
mid-America,
is the largest public works project now under construction
in the U.S. Investigating the potential TTW impact on poor,
rural, and black populations in the impact area, the
Federation of Southern Cooperatives initiated a study in
1970 which revealed that about 60% of that population was
low income, 40% black, and 75% of that black population low
income. Other studies have revealed that between 1950-73
over 50 million people (66% black) have migrated out of the
165 county primary impact area, projecting that employment
in the TTW area will increase by over 1 million jobs (1973
2000) without TTW and by 126,200 additional jobs with TTW.
As a result of a conference convened in 1974 by the
Federation, the Minority People's Council (MPC) on TTW was
established. Forming a coalition with the construction
craft
unions, the MPC has engaged in: securing an affirmative
action plan for minority employment in TTW construction;
training programs to prepare minorities for employment;
community education efforts to inform people of the TTW
impact; involving educational institutions in the impact
area; and conducting studies of available vocational
program
relevance to TTW employment opportunities. (JC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Blacks-; Career-Development; Community
Education; Educational-Programs; Industry-; Low-Income
Groups; Surveys-; Training-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Economically
Disadvantaged; *Employment-Opportunities; *Minority-Groups;
*Organizations-Groups; *Rural-Population
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