See ASCS Elections — Struggle for Economic Survival and subsequent articles for background information (CRMVet History & Timeline).
See also Articles About the ASCS Elections
[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. |
| 1964 | What You Should Know About: Acreage Allotment Programs, unsigned NSF, distributed by CORE. Undated |
| 1964 | ASCS Committee elections, Jane Adams, COFO Federal Programs, Mr. Sullivan (ASCS). October 27 1964 |
| 1964 | Clarke County (MS) Freedom Gazette, Results of the ASCS Elections, CORE. 12/7/64 |
| 1964? 65? | Do the Farm Programs in Your Area Discriminate? CORE? Undated, probably 1965 |
| 64? '65? | ASCS organizing handbook, unsigned, MFDP. Undated (probably either late 1964 or late 1965) |
| 1965 | SNCC Memo on ASCS Elections (From SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference) |
| 1965? 66? | ASCS Flyer #1, Mississippi. |
| 1965? 66? | ASCS Flyer #2, Mississippi. |
| 1965? 66? | ASCS Elections, Mississippi. (Primer) |
| 1965 | CORE contact list of Louisiana ASCS offices, June 1965 |
| 1965 | CORE ASCS Election Flyer, Lousiana. |
| 1965 | Note to Dan, re ASCS elections (LA). Herman "Slick" Carter, CORE. Undated (probably May or June 1965) |
| 1965 | Agriculture Stabilization & Conservation Service (ASCS) Report, United States Commission on Civil Rights. Unsigned (possibly a summary prepared by CORE). June, 1965 |
| 1965 | Questions Concerning Local and Parish ASC Committees..., (LA). Unsigned CORE. Undated (probably May or June 1965) |
| 1965 | Memo re Louisianna ASCS parish elections, Herman "Slick" Carter, CORE. Undated 1965 (probably June or July) |
| 65? 66? | ASC Elections, unsigned, CORE (Louisiana?). Undated (probably 1964-1967) |
| 66? 67? | ASCS Organizers Handbook, Author unknown. |
| 1966 | Report on ASCS Election in Marshall & Desoto Counties, Rita Walker, SNCC (MS) |
| 1966 | How to Lose an ASCS Election Right and Left, Unsigned. Report on the 1966 ASCS election in Hinds County MS. |
| 1966 | Report and Observation of the Perry (County) ASCS Election, Albert Turner, SCLC. September, 1966 |
| 1967 | How Our Machine Can Win the Elections, MFDP. May 1967, Manual for ASCS Election Block Captains |
| 1967 | ASCS Election Flyer, Hinds County MS. |
| 1967 | Farm Programs: FHA, FES, ASCS, SRRP |
| 1967 | Dear Friend ASCS election notice, William Seabron. Dept. of Agriculture. August 2, 1967 |
| 1967 | Black Farm Families — Hunger & Malnutrition in Rural Alabama, SRRP |
| 1967 | The Extinction of the Black Farmer in Alabama, SRRP |
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