OUR STRATEGY
Phase 1: The Problem
Phase 2: Campaign-Agitate
Phase 2: Campaign-Agitate
A community left behind. The families that stayed after the neighborhood destruction caused by the Interstate Highway system was left neglected, angry, and overwhelmed. A once thriving, tight-knit community was completely obliterated. Oral traditions through conversations between neighbors and loved ones across backyard fences were lost.
A community left behind. The families that stayed after the neighborhood destruction caused by the Interstate Highway system was left neglected, angry, and overwhelmed. A once thriving, tight-knit community was completely obliterated. Oral traditions through conversations between neighbors and loved ones across backyard fences were lost. The neighborhood watch, also known as the elders, that set on their porches looking out for the safety of the children playing in the street were no more. The peaceful harmony within the community that fostered the exchange of homegrown vegetables and fruit from backyard trees had been replaced by a sense of despondence and empty, desolate lots.
Phase 2: Campaign-Agitate
Phase 2: Campaign-Agitate
Phase 2: Campaign-Agitate
After years of being underserved and completely ignored by the government, organizations, and individuals the time has come for the rebirth of the Peacock Tract Community. The time has come for this resilient and historic African American community to be recognized, restored, and elevated for its contribution to Civil Rights and global change.
Phase 3: The Solution
Phase 2: Campaign-Agitate
Phase 3: The Solution
It begins with us - Community support. To date, Tuskegee University Cooperative Extension in collaboration with the City of Montgomery, The Conservation Fund, 21 Dreams Arts & Culture, and other community stakeholders are actively working to preserve the history and recreate a sustainable community for current residents and future generat
It begins with us - Community support. To date, Tuskegee University Cooperative Extension in collaboration with the City of Montgomery, The Conservation Fund, 21 Dreams Arts & Culture, and other community stakeholders are actively working to preserve the history and recreate a sustainable community for current residents and future generations. And more support is needed. Please consider getting involved today.
OUR STORY
Through the lens of contributors
“At one time as a church, use to brag about being in the midst of the people, but today we are a church standing alone because there are no people residing in the neighborhood.”
- C. P. Everette IV.
"The history of the Peacock Tract is one of cultural pride, civil rights, and recently underdevelopment. A community demonstrating African American self-reliance, resilience, and activism became one of the targets of US Interstate attacks that divided African American communities around the nation by creating physical, chemical, and cultural barriers that would lead to environmental, economic, and social degradation. Though the community has suffered this and other injustices, the seed of development remains in the community, as well as other assets that can be activated to lead to a development without displacement resurgence."
- Dr. Raymon Shange
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