Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

by Monica M. White

Book Overview

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, tenant farmers, and domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, and political resistance. Life on the cooperative farm presented an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469643693
• ISBN13: 9781469643694
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"