A 20 Year Experiment In Cooperative Farming In The Mississippi Delta

An interracial farmer’s co-op built upon the principles of cooperative communalism existed for 20 years in rural Mississippi. Scholar Robert Hunt Ferguson explores this socio-economic experiment in his book “ Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi ” (The University of Georgia Press 2018). Ferguson is a professor of history at Western Carolina University.