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In 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.

Black lives matter movement. --- Food supply --- Food sovereignty --- Agriculture, Cooperative --- African Americans --- Sovereignty, Food --- Right to food --- Blacklivesmatter movement --- Social movements --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Agricultural cooperation --- Agricultural cooperatives --- Cooperative agriculture --- Cooperative societies, Agricultural --- Farmers' cooperatives --- Agricultural contracts --- Cooperation --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Political aspects --- History. --- Political activity --- Social conditions --- Detroit Black Community Food Security Network. --- Federation of Southern Cooperatives. --- North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative (Mound Bayou, Miss.) --- Freedom Farms Corporation (Sunflower County, Miss.) --- FSC --- Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund --- Black people --- Agriculture. --- Farmers. --- African American farmers. --- Farm operators --- Operators, Farm --- Planters (Persons) --- Agriculturists --- Rural population --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Land use, Rural --- Afro-American farmers --- Farmers, African American --- Negroes as farmers --- Farmers