African American Land Ownership in the South: Increasing Access to the Records of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and the Emergency Land Fund

FAIN: PW-259090-18

Amistad Research Center (New Orleans, LA 70118-5665)
Laura J. Thomson (Project Director: July 2017 to August 2019)

A planning project to organize the records of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and the Emergency Land Fund relating to African American land ownership and agriculture in the rural South from the 1960s through the 1990s.

The Amistad Research Center seeks funding through an HCRR Foundations Grant to complete the first of two planned stages to increase access to two large sets of related organizational records that pertain to African American land ownership and agriculture in the rural South from the 1960s through the 1990s.