[The Agriculture Stabilization & Conservation Service (ASCS) was an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. Among other programs, it distributed cash crop subsidies, assigned acreage allotments, and made price-support and land-conversion loans to farmers who grew cotton, corn, tobacco, peanuts, and so on. Under the ASCS system, farmers in each county elected a committee that divided up the money and acreage allotments amongst them. Historically, Blacks in the Deep South were exlcuded from these elections, and the all-white committees denied Black farmers their fair share — enriching white farmers at the expense of Blacks. In the mid-1960s freedom organizations such as SNCC, CORE and COFO began organizing Black farmers to vote in, and run candidates for, the ASCS elections.]
| 1964 | Cotton Vote in Mississippi, COFO report. [PDF] |
| 1965 | SNCC Memo on ASCS Elections (From SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference) [PDF] |
| 1965? 66? | ASCS Flyer #1, Mississippi. [PDF] |
| 1965? 66? | ASCS Flyer #2, Mississippi. [PDF] |
| 1965? 66? | ASCS Elections, Mississippi. (Primer) [PDF] |
| 1967 | Farm Programs: FHA, FES, ASCS, (SRRP) [PDF] |
| 1967 | Black Farm Families — Hunger & Malnutrition in Rural Alabama, (SRRP) [PDF] |
| 1967 | The Extinction of the Black Farmer in Alabama, (SRRP) [PDF] |
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