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COMMUNITY WELL-BEING

Southwest Division Team Shows Support for
Residents of Historic Freedmen’s Community

In late August 2020, Martin Marietta’s Southwest Division Jackson said the Martin Marietta team’s contribution was
team worked with Dallas’ South Central Civic League to part of an effort coordinated by Shalondria Galimore,
bring aid to a community first settled by newly freed men president of the South Central Civic League. The South
and women in the late 1860s. Central Civic League, whose main goal is to improve living
conditions for local families, was founded in 1948 by Mrs.
Rail Operations Manager Bradley Jackson worked with Laurabelle Foster and has been instrumental in the
Production Supervisor Randy Rutledge, Management completion of many projects that benefited the Joppa
Associate Ashley Trappe and Executive Administrative neighborhood, including the addition of paved streets,
Assistant Nancee Trinh to source, package and deliver 88 better schools, the installation of street lights, and sewer
backpacks filled with school supplies, along with 160 line extensions.
bottles of hand sanitizer and 160 face coverings, to the
children of Joppa, an historic Dallas neighborhood near the Delivered directly to the students and families, each
Company’s Miller Rail Yard in southeast Dallas. backpack contained pencils, coloring books and stress
relief safety cones, Jackson said.
Joppa, occasionally spelled Joppee, Joppie or Joppy, was
first settled by formerly enslaved people from a nearby “This is the type of event that goes a long way with our
plantation shortly after the Civil War. It is said to be one of neighbors in the community, especially the children,”
three Freedmen’s Communities remaining in Texas and one Jackson said. “For many of these parents, affording school
of the best preserved in the country. supplies isn’t possible and for others, it’s a real sacrifice.
We wanted to help where we could.”

From left: Randy Rutledge, Shalondria
Galimore and Bradley Jackson deliver
backpacks to the families of Joppa, Texas

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