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The Phillip Harrington photography archive shows photographs of Elvis Presley, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Nat King Cole, Nancy Sinatra, Gary Snyder, Edward Abbey, Jack Kerouac, and others.
Founded by Albert Turner in 1967 as an economic push to enable black southerners to own and maintain their own land, the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA) was the first black-owned farm co-operative venture. This was an important but largely overlooked development in civil rights in the deep south.
Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association SWAFCA 1968
SWAFCA office, probably a local county substation of SWAFCA, and not the main Selma office.
Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association SWAFCA 1968
Members of SWAFCA at a meeting in Selma Alabama
Farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Farmers at the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA) 1968
Farmers at the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA) 1968
The Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Worker at the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Workers at the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Farmers at the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Buyer or manager from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA) 1968
Farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association SWAFCA 1968
Farmer and member of SWAFCA
Farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
SWAFCA 18
Family of a farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Family of a farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association SWAFCA 1968
Farmer and member of SWAFCA
Farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
Farmer from the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA)
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