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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The 100 Men Hall]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Blues (Music) -- Social aspects]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Blues (Music)--Mississippi--History]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[The 100 Men Hall (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.)]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Fraternal organizations--Bay Saint Louis (Miss.)]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The 100 Men Hall was founded in 1894 by 12 civic-minded African American Bay Saint Louis residents who organized under the name "Hundred Members Debating Benevolent Association" in order to "assist its members when sick, bury its dead in a respectable manner, and knit friendship." What started as an organizing group for the African American community grew into an open-air pavilion. Then, in 1922, a cornerstone was laid and the existing Hall was built. At that time, segregation forced Black musicians into a narrow yet robust performance corridor called "the chitlin circuit," an historic network of performance spaces that eventually put the Hall on the Mississippi Blues Trail map.;Webpages and documents related to the visual arts, literature, performing arts, folkways, customs, ceremonies, festivals, and popular traditions of Hancock County, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast region.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[The 100 Men Hall (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.)]]></dcterms:creator>
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    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Archived Since: May 2024]]></dcterms:date>
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