Living and working in Mulberry introduced the majority of men to what they termed as “the race problem”, and on the whole the camp community sought “a Christian solution”.  Articles in the camp newspaper, exchanges between African-American educators and preachers and CPS assignees, set the stage for a conference on interracial cooperation, held May 19-20, 1945.

In February 1946, a group from the Mulberry unit visited the historically black Bethune-Cookman College where nearly twenty CPS men met with faculty and engaged in a full range of activities including a baseball game with students, attendance at African-American Sunday-school classes, preaching services, and a communion service.  At an interracial vesper service, the college president explained the CPS program and a camper addressed the gathering. 

While this involvement created some tensions in the larger community, there were other challenges at Mulberry as well.  Those involved the costs of privies.  The men, by increasing efficiency in production had brought down the cost, but the Polk County Health Department still charged residents $27.50.  The men felt that the county should not be making profits from their services.  The regional director of MCC became involved and ultimately an agreement was written at the close of the program, to use the surplus funds to make free units available to needy areas. 

The Mulberry unit was one of five that carried on the foreign relief training program in preparation for post-war work.  Each Friday evening men attended a fifty-minute lecture on some aspect of relief taught by professors from Mennonite colleges or by ministers.  Courses included Spanish, German, Bible Study, and social problems, among others. 

CPS camps were full of lonely men and Mulberry was no exception.  Coeds from Florida Southern College not far away dated COs assigned to the unit.  (Goossen p. 53)

From April 1944 through March 1945, the men published a camp paper titled Box 96.