amistad research center

Amistad Awarded NEH Grant to Organize Collections on Black Agriculture, Cooperatives and Land Owners

The Amistad Research Center received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to survey the records of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives-Land Assistance Fund (FSC-LAF), an organization committed to assisting African-American farmers in the southeastern United States through training programs and a network of co-ops. Through this survey we learned about the many different programs and projects created and administered by FSC from the 1960s to the 1990s. Whi