From the Archives: Bob Maurer on Charles Sherrod and New Communities Farm

Nearly 50 years ago, activist Robert Maurer reported on the successes and challenges of a Georgia agricultural cooperative conceived as a step toward securing Black economic empowerment in the post-civil rights South. 

Charles Sherrod: An Unheralded Giant of the Civil Rights Struggle

by Ansley L. Quiros

"Charles Sherrod is the most important civil rights figure you've never heard of"--fighting for six decades in southwest Georgia, persevering through incremental gains after the publicity of the Albany Movement faded.