Emergency Land Fund (U.S.)

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...