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Publication Date
4-26-2021
Abstract
When the archives closed due to COVID-19, Keon Burns had to change his original idea for his thesis and focus on something closer to home. So he chose a paper he wrote for Catarina Passidomo's SST 555: Foodways course about his great-grandparents' grocery store in Bolton, Mississippi. That paper morphed into "Black Grocers, Black Activism, and the Spaces in Between: Black Grocery Stores during the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Movement," the thesis Burns successfully defended April 26. In the original paper, he only discussed the food-related research that he came across, but the store represented much more than a food source to the community.
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