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Image of civic leaders participating in a groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Paul/Gillespie-Selden Rural Life Community Center in Cordele, Georgia, December 1999. Approximately fifteen men and women dig in a grassy plot with shovels. Some of the shovels are decorated with red bows. Several small buildings stand in the background.The St. Paul/Gillespie-Selden Rural Life Community Center offers a twenty-four-hour child-care facility for parents on welfare who are struggling to find work.
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Keywords

  1. African American Civic Leaders
  2. African American Men
  3. African American Women
  4. African Americans
  5. Bows (Ribbon Work)
  6. Buildings
  7. Buildings, Structures, Etc
  8. Civic Leaders
  9. Community Centers
  10. Cordele
  11. Cordele (Ga.)
  12. Georgia
  13. Men
  14. Rites And Ceremonies
  15. Shovels
  16. Women

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