Amistad Research Center (New Orleans, LA 70118-5665)
Laura J. Thomson (Project Director: July 2019 to present)
PW-269094-20
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$302,217 (approved)
$302,217 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/2020 – 5/31/2023
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African American Cooperatives and Land Ownership in the South: Increasing Access to the Records of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund
The arrangement and description of 600 linear
feet of archival materials from the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land
Assistance Fund (1967-1990) and the Emergency Land Fund (1971-1986), which
document African American land ownership and agricultural communities in the
southern United States.
This project will assist the
Amistad Research Center 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. This project
will entail the completion of archival processing for the two targeted
organizational records collections, the Federation of Southern
Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund (FSC/LAF) and The Emergency Land Fund (ELF).
Largely unavailable to researchers, due to their size and lack of organization,
these records document an overlooked, but fundamental aspect of African
American civil rights – access to land and to sustainable economic prosperity.
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