LEADER 04351oam 22008054a 450 001 9911026065203321 005 20250107164813.0 010 $a9798890853271 010 $a9781469643717 010 $a1469643715 010 $a9781469643700 010 $a1469643707 035 $a(CKB)4100000007134239 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5574865 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002032657 035 $a(OCoLC)1080648944 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse68600 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5574865 035 $a(OCoLC)1066178342 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007134239 100 $a20180412h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFreedom farmers $eagricultural resistance and the Black Freedom Movement /$fMonica M. White, foreword by LaDonna Redmond 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aChapel Hill :$cUniversity of North Carolina Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aJustice, power, and politics 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 08$a9781469643694 311 08$a1469643693 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLand, food, and freedom: black farmers, agriculture, and resistance -- Intellectual traditions in black agriculture: Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and W. E. B. Du Bois -- Collective agency and community resilience in action -- A pig and a garden: Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms Cooperative -- North Bolivar County Farmers Cooperative -- The Federation of Southern Cooperatives -- The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network -- Black farmers and black land matter. 330 $aIn the late 1960s, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased 40 acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural & economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers, tenant farmers, & domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, & political resistance. Life on the cooperative farm presented an alternative to the second wave of northern migration by African Americans - an opportunity to stay in the South, live off the land, & create a healthy community based upon building an alternative food system as a cooperative & collective effort. 'Freedom Farmers' expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, & contributions of southern black farmers & the organizations they formed. This book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans. 410 0$aJustice, power, and politics. 517 3 $aAgricultural resistance and the Black Freedom Movement 606 $aBlack lives matter movement 606 $aFood supply$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aFood sovereignty$zUnited States 606 $aAgriculture, Cooperative$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitical activity$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$xAgriculture$xHistory 606 $aAgriculture 606 $aFarmers 606 $aAfrican American farmers 615 0$aBlack lives matter movement. 615 0$aFood supply$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aFood sovereignty 615 0$aAgriculture, Cooperative$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitical activity$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xAgriculture$xHistory. 615 0$aAgriculture. 615 0$aFarmers. 615 0$aAfrican American farmers. 676 $a305.896/073 676 $a305.896073 700 $aWhite$b Monica M$g(Monica Marie),$f1967-$01847274 702 $aRedmond$b LaDonna 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911026065203321 996 $aFreedom farmers$94432804 997 $aUNINA