A Pig and a Garden: Fannie Lou Hamer, Agricultural Cooperatives and the Black Freedom Movement
Online MA, United StatesKeynote address with author Dr. Monica White, associate professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison In the late 1960s, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farm Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 […]