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The Chitlin Market

The Chitlin Market, a Maryland company located in Hyattsville, Prince Georges County. The company was founded and owned by Shauna Anderson and managed by Angela Holmes. Without using any funding from the government, the company hired and inspired workers to reach for higher goals in life. Workers would start off cleaning chitlins while attending training to learn about self esteem building, financial decision making, getting help with home purchases and securing automobiles to become productive members of society. The Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History accepted the papers of the Chitlin Market into the museum in April 2003.

Controversy

The Prince Georges County, Maryland government shut down the business and rezoned it from commercial back to residential because the government did not did like the use of the word Chitlin in the name of the business. All of the employees lost their jobs.