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Creation Date
3-9-1964
Description
Form letter created by Rev. J.H. Taylor to petition citizens to voe against urban renewal as it pertained to Jonesville in 1964.
Dear Mr.
We the citizens of the Jonesville community are asking you to vote against the ordance making Jonesville a urban renewal project. If this ordance is passed it will cause our property to be sold as slum property, and slum property sells very cheap. We pay out here the highest percent of tax in the City, and that lifts us out of the slum category.
We have no objection to selling our property to the State for the college, if the college need the property. But we want to deal directly with the State, and not have the urban renewal as a middle man, to take some of the prophet that should be ours. The State has bought property from us before, and have had no trouble at all in buying this property, and they will have no trouble in the future, if we can deal directly with them.
We have twelve widows in our community, drawing a small Soc-ias security check, that is two small for them to get a loan to help them rebuild, under the urban renewal they would not get enough to buy another home, so they would be put out doors.
Yours in Christ and for His service.
Rev. J.H. Taylor
Keywords
Jonesville, Protest Movements