Fannie Lou Hamer envisioned Freedom Farm Cooperative (FFC) as a strategy to provide the needs of poor people in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Eventually FFC included social services, low income housing, childcare, college scholarship funds, financial aid for meeting basic necessities, and jobs for low income citizens. (258) Hamer advocated black socialism in the form of a black owned cooperative. Historian Chris Myers says Hamer ultimate vision resulted in enduring change. Available sources contradict that interpretation. The problem had been most of the beneficiaries of FFC never understood or committed to cooperative economic development. They despised the work central to the cooperative success—farming because historically it served the interest of those who oppress them.
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