Former maids and sharecroppers who once earned only $15 to $20 a week now earn twice that much by selling their handmade crafts through cooperatives in Mississippi. Fifteen such cooperatives, making toys, leather handbags, quilts and pottery, market their products through the Poor Peoples' Corporation. The Corporation has received several grants in the Episcopal Church's "General Convention Special Program," inaugurated in 1968 to assist poor and powerless minorities to help themselves.
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