Bennie Thompson, who represents Quitman County. “The Hall of Fame will be the catalyst to Delta tourism growth and opportunities, and a means to attract business and industry,” said Democratic U.S. ColumbiaĪs of 2020, Quitman County had one of the 20 lowest median income levels of all counties in the country, according to the U.S. Low Numbers: Marquette cancels Week 3 football game vs. music industry worldwide,” planners wrote in a document outlining the project. “It was this cultural and musical phenomenon that provided the basis for the prodigious economic success and profits of the U.S. The conditions in the cotton fields of Quitman County and other parts of the Mississippi Delta were the environment in which early civil rights activists and field workers produced music that's now identified as blues, gospel and R&B, project planners said. They raised a little money here and there trying to get a little food to feed the children trying to teach them a little something.” And I tell you I saw hundreds of Black boys and Black girls walking the streets with no shoes to wear,” King said at the National Cathedral in Washington. “I was in Marks, Mississippi, the other day, which is in Quitman County, the poorest county in the United States. On March 31, 1968, in what would be his final Sunday sermon before his assassination, King described the poverty-stricken families he encountered in Marks. chose the town in 1968 as the starting point for his Poor People’s Campaign, which demanded economic justice for poor Americans of all backgrounds. Marks appealed to Robinson due to its civil rights history. Since 2013, it has inducted more than 200 artists. Robinson founded the hall of fame in 2010. “My vision to build a hall of fame to honor R&B and its contributions to civil rights, America, and the entire world is something that I don’t take lightly.” “There is no other hall of fame in the world that is primarily focused and dedicated to the history of R&B music on a national scale,” LaMont Robinson, CEO of the NRBHF, said in a news release.
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