Terence Courtney of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives talk to the ATC guys about how Black folks have historically built networks of mutualism and cooperation in order to gain collective prosperity as well as how the federation works to preserve, sustain, and grow the black rural middle class today.
"Since Africans were brought here to United States, folks have always had to organize themselves for mutual aid. The context of their lives required that. Being enslaved people, provided with meager resources to sustain themselves, collectivizing economics was essential and that continued on through the 18th century, 19th century, even during the Jim Crow era. Again, it was critical that people work together under segregation. There weren't many options elsewhere, and even more so in rural places." - Terence Courtney
This is a clip from All Things Co-op: Federation of Southern Cooperatives with Terence Courtney [S06 E07]
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