Like me, Historian Angela Jill Cooley work is on food justice. The research looks at strategies marginalized communities have created to access nutritious food and designing sovereign local controlled food systems. Supporting a 1962 SNCC Voter registration in Greenwood, Mississippi had been one of Dick Gregory’s earliest food rebellions. At the time, the Leflore County board of supervisors managed the areas federal food subsidy program. County officials stopped distributing food to poor African Americans in need as a reprisal for participating in SNCC’s voter registration drive and mobilization efforts. In response activist organized the friends of SNCC initiative in Chicago. Supporters in Chicago created 12 food collection sites throughout the city and publicized the food drive in the winter of 1962.
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