All in Food and Social Movements
In the forthcoming book Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution, there is a section with recipes from the Afro-American Cooking School (AACS). Like the New Negro Alliance, the AACS remains largely forgotten today.
Operation Breadbasket started as an initiative of the SCLC in 1962
n 1963, SNCC organized a voter registration drive among African-Americans in Leflore County Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta. Slowly a number of African-Americans began heading up at the County Courthouse to register to vote.