Emergency Land Fund (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Robert S. Browne oral history interview
Collection
Identifier: 2339
Content Description
Recordings of an oral history interview with Robert S. Browne conducted by Clifton H. Johnson. Browne was the founder of the Black Economics Research Center.
Dates:
Other: 1995
Emergency Land Fund records
Collection
Identifier: 148
Content Description
The Emergency Land Fund was created in 1972 to reverse the trend of descreasing black ownership of lands in the rural South. The records of the fund include correspondence (carbons and photostatics copies primarily), mostly outgoing but some incoming. Other record types include agenda, studies and reports, memoranda, financial records, and news clippings. Topics contained in the records include the effect of the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway on black ownership of farms in...
Dates:
Other: 1972-1980
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Emergency Land Fund records