Gum Springs’ Juneteenth celebration is also a fight to preserve historically Black community
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Gum Springs’ Juneteenth celebration is also a fight to preserve historically Black community
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Date Created
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6/17/2022
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Creator
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By: Matt Blitz
FFX Now
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Description
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Article on Gum Springs, their then upcoming Juneteenth celebration, the communities thoughts on the recent Holland Court development, and coming expansions to Route 1.
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"'The steps that certain individuals within the community are taking are contributing to the vanishing Black communities, and it diminishes the contribution that those Black communities have made...to American history,' Cox said.
A Gum Springs Conservation Plan was developed in 2015 as an effort to work with the county to preserve the community. However, Cox says that plan hasn’t fully been reviewed by county staff or adopted by the Board of Supervisors in the seven years since."
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Research Themes
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Gum Springs
New Gum Springs Civic Association
Route 1 expansion
Gum Springs Conservation Plan
Holland Court
Slow Violence
Displacement in place
Physical displacement
Community organization
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Newsplaper/Blog
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Researcher Name
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Jacob Connelly
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Bibliographic Citation
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Blitz, Matt. “Gum Springs’ Juneteenth Celebration Is Also a Fight to Preserve Historically Black Community.” FFX Now, June 17, 2022. Blitz, Matt. “Gum Springs’ Juneteenth Celebration Is Also a Fight to Preserve Historically Black Community.” FFX Now, June 17, 2022. https://www.ffxnow.com/2022/06/17/gum-springs-juneteenth-celebration-fight-to-save-historically-black-community/
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