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Giles Penny Savers Store

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A store at this site was owned and operated until 1988 by Oscar and Alice Giles, who were active in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the local Civil Rights movement. The store was firebombed on May 1, 1965, and heavily damaged, but with the help of neighbors the flames were extinguished.
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