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CURE

Fannie Lou Hamer came to Brooklyn in March of 1973 to launch the expansion of Greater Horizons Inc. (GHI) New York City farm to market program. GHI had been the collaborative vision of Hamer, Pastor Lawrence Durain of the United Church of Christ in New York City, and AUT president Calvin L. Walton. In August 1973, two AUT trucks loaded with produce from lower caste farms in the South served as the main attraction at a Harlem farmer’s market. Communities United for Reconstruction and Economic Development (CURE), a nonprofit affiliated with GHI organized the initiative. CURE’s plan called for eliminating dominant caste food brokers from the supply chain and offering lower prices to lower caste food co-ops and then those food co-ops passing on lower prices to their members. In the process lower caste southern farmers would receive higher prices for their crops then they typically did from dominant caste buyers. CURE sought to assist lower caste farmers in a transition from dependent sharecroppers to independent landowners in the South. CURE also provided assistance for starting, farm, food processing, and food store cooperatives, farmers markets, and trucking and marketing companies in lower caste African-American, Latino, and Native American communities.

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