Currently doing a series on Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm Cooperative (FFC). Hamer had the goal of a cooperative that would provide poor people with a strategy to become landowners working collectively. Unfortunately, too many of the people FFC tried help abused the system harvesting crops without contributing needed labor in addition to other problems. Too many of its targe audience fulfilled the stereotype of southern elites that poor black folk would rather rob you blind then work to meet their needs. In its effort to emancipate poor people from debt, FFC became dependent on white benefactors and enslaved to bank loan officers. Too many scholars who have study FFC focus almost exclusively on donations to keep FFC solvent without discussing the essential problem, FFC’s inability to raise more per month than it owed banks. Hamer’s vision for an egalitarian cooperative that met community needs had never achieved sustainability.