African American farmers -- Southern States

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...

Content Description The Federation of Southern Cooperatives Oral History Project collection encompasses three transcripts of interviews with Executive Directors, Charles O. Prejean, Sr.; Ralph Paige; and Cornelius Blanding conducted by public historian, Michael J. O’Brien for his work on the 50th anniversary history of the organization, 50 Years of Courage, Cooperation, Commitment and Community – A Brief History of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land assistance Fund---1967-2017.The project...

Content Description The Federation of Southern Cooperatives (FSC) was founded to assist African American farmers, reverse the trend of decline in Black ownership of land in the South, and to develop cooperatives and credit unions as a means to assist individuals and families in rural and low-income communities. The records of FSC include voluminous correspondence, memoranda, studies, reports, statistical data, photographs, financial records, newsletters and publications both generated and collected by the...