Agriculture -- Economic conditions -- 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 (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...

Content Description The Patricia Goudvis’ photograph collection captures the juncture between rural, working class agricultural life, particularly on the outskirts of former plantations and sugarcane mills, and white suburban life. Some photos in this collection contain graphic, racist imagery, particularly of a Golliwog doll being noosed to a lamp post in Houma.On May 20th, 1974, in Houma, Louisiana, Goudvis visited the USDA hearing that decided annual wages for cane workers in accordance with the...