[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 16, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E239]
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                        HONORING MINNIE B. YOUNG

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                        HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 16, 2011

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Mrs. 
Minnie B. Young. Mrs. Minnie B. Young was born on March 11, 1937, 
outside of Leland, Mississippi. She is the youngest of five children. 
Mrs. Young was married twice; both husbands are deceased. Mrs. Young is 
the proud mother of five children.
  Mrs.Young attended elementary school in Dunleith, MS, then on to 
Abraham Lincoln Attendance Center in Leland, MS.
  In 1965, Mrs. Young and others went on a strike for a pay increase 
from A.L. Andrew Plantation, located in what was then Tent City, MS. It 
was called Tent City because they lived in tents. However, there were 
no raises and the strikers eventually quit their jobs at the 
Plantation. The strikers then changed the name of the town from Tent 
City to what we now know as Strike City in 1966. Also, she was one of 
the marchers in Greenville, MS, during the Civil Rights Era in 1966.
  Mrs. Young worked in the Head Start program from 1966-1980. She went 
from Head Start to Witte Memorial Hospital, in Leland, MS, from 1980-
1985.
  Mrs. Young enjoys writing poems. She considers this a hobby, which 
she has been doing since she was a little girl. Both she and her 
daughter, Maxine Johnson, call themselves ``Strike City's Finest 
Poets.'' They published a book of poems called Real Talk. Mrs. Young 
considers herself a religious poet. Today, she still writes poems, 
mostly for her church, Greater St. Matthew M.B. Church, located in 
Strike City, MS.

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