She will use the $200,000 award to complete her second book, “We Stayed: Agriculture, Activism, and the Southern Black Rural Families Who Fought to Keep the Land.”
Monica White
A Taste of Freedom: UW professor unearths a missing chapter in the history of civil rights
Their salvation would be pickles. That was the decision of a group of farmers in Sumter County, Alabama, who were struggling financially. But when they tried to purchase cucumber seeds from a local merchant, the …