Civil rights activist and former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer founds the Freedom Farm Cooperative as a means for African-American farmers to share resources, including field crops and vegetables.


Monica M. White. “’A pig and a garden’: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Freedom Farms Cooperative.” Food and Foodways, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2017): 20-39.

Heather Booth playing guitar for Fannie Lou Hamer during the Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi, 1964. Wallace Roberts. Permission to use granted by Heather Booth. Jewish Women’s Archive. Copyright 2012. CC BY SA.