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Date Time Seminar to explore racial and food justice movements in New York In the late 1960s, activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farm Cooperative. Now, local community organizations, activists, students and researchers will meet April 19 to delve into the historical significance of the movement and spur conversations around the contemporary resurgence of food justice and sovereignty movements in rural and urban spaces. The seminar, “A Pig and a Garden: Fannie Lou Hamer, Agricultural Cooperatives and the Black Freedom Movement,” will be led by Monica White, associate professor of environmental justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her talk, White will expand on the historical narrative of the Black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations and cooperatives that they formed.

United statesNew yorkFannie lou hamerChrista nunezScott petersMonica whiteDepartment of global developmentFreedom farmCollege of agricultureCornell small farms programUniversity of wisconsinLife sciencesFreedom movementSociety of the humanities rural initiativeMississippi deltaAgricultural cooperative