Freedom Farmers : Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement /

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In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: White, Monica M. (Monica Marie), 1967- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Redmond, LaDonna (author of foreword)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Federation of Southern Cooperatives.
Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.
North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative (Mound Bayou, Miss.)
Freedom Farms Corporation (Sunflower County, Miss.)
Food supply > Political aspects.
Food sovereignty.
Black lives matter movement.
Agriculture, Cooperative.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Agriculture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
Mouvement Black Lives Matter.
Souverainete alimentaire > États-Unis.
Noirs americains > Activite politique > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Conditions sociales.
Noirs americains > Agriculture > Histoire.
Food supply > Political aspects > United States > History.
Food sovereignty > United States.
Agriculture, Cooperative > United States > History.
African Americans > Political activity > History.
African Americans > Social conditions > History.
African Americans > Agriculture > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Land, food, and freedom: black farmers, agriculture, and resistance
  • Intellectual traditions in black agriculture: Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Collective agency and community resilience in action
  • A pig and a garden: Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms Cooperative
  • North Bolivar County Farmers Cooperative
  • The Federation of Southern Cooperatives
  • The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
  • Black farmers and black land matter.

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