Freedom Farm Cooperative
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Oct 8, 2026
Vernon OakesHOST
Many people know Ms. Hamer as a courageous leader in the struggle for voting rights.
Vernon OakesHOST
Today, we're going to explore another part of her work, the Freedom Farm Cooperative, which she founded in Mississippi in 1969.
Vernon OakesHOST
She understood that the right to vote mattered deeply, and that people also needed food, land, housing, and a way to make a living.
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Our guest is Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, who's professor at John Jay College.
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Vernon OakesHOST
It's fantastic.
Vernon OakesHOST
What does she see that national leaders or the public may have missed? And you just answered that right before this one, so I'm gonna go to the next question is, in nineteen sixty-nine, Mrs.
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Hamer obtained support to buy an initial forty acres for the Freedom Farm Cooperative.
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Who was she trying to serve, and what did she want those acres to make possible?