Alice Walker: "We Cannot Be Ourselves Without Our Land"

ajowa — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:33:26 -0400

The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund on August 19, 2010 honored Alice Walker in Birmingham, AL at its annual dinner attended by more than 400 people.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and self-proclaimed "daughter of the rural peasantry" was presented the Estelle Witherspoon Lifetime Achievement award by FSC Executive Director Ralph Paige. The largely black organization of farmer cooperatives works to save and preserve black-owned farmlands.

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Ethan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:12:27 -0400

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Alice Walker: "We Cannot Be Ourselves Without Our Land"

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