South West Alabama Farm Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)[1] The co-operative was boycotted by some businesses.[2] The group's activities were photographed. Albert Turner and others helped organize the group in 1967.[3][4] It received Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) funding.
Representatives of rural southern co-operatives met in Mount Beulah, Mississippi and founded the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in December 1967. Its mission was to address extreme poverty with a network of co-ops that could raise money and provide technical assistance to black farmers, landowners, and rural communities.[5]
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edit- ^ "OEO funds Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association".
- ^ Miles, Michael (21 September 1968). "Black Cooperatives". The New Republic.
- ^ "Black Farmers Co-op | Phillip Harrington Photography".
- ^ Ashmore, Susan Youngblood (2008). Carry it on: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820330518.
- ^ https://thenaturalfarmer.org/article/federating-southern-cooperatives/
- ^ "Auburn University and the Alabama Farmers Federation Historical Marker".
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