Draft:South West Alabama Farm Cooperative Association

SWAFCA

South West Alabama Farm Cooperative Association (SWAFCA) The co-operative was boycotted by some businesses. The group's activities were photographed. Albert Turner and others helped organize the group in 1967. It received Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) funding.

Representatives of rural southern co-operatives met in Mount Beulah, Mississippi and founded the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in December 1967. Its mission was to address extreme poverty with a network of co-ops that could raise money and provide technical assistance to black farmers, landowners, and rural communities.