Principal investigator Netta Cox, an associate professor of library services and university librarian at the F.D. Bluford Library, looks through archived material in the F.D. Bluford library on the campus of N.C. A&T, which has a significant collection of photographs, letters, news clippings, movie film, tape recordings and paraphernalia dedicated to the New Farmers of America.
James Parker, N.C. A&T
Investigators Netta Cox (left), head of serials and government documents at F.D. Bluford Library and is the library’s agricultural liaison, and Antoine Alston, Ph.D., a professor of agricultural education and associate dean of academic studies in A&T’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, pose in the archives of F.D. Bluford Library on the campus of N.C. A&T.
James Parker, N.C. A&T
Principal investigator Netta Cox, a associate professor of library services and university librarian at the F.D. Bluford Library, looks through archived material in the F.D. Bluford Library on the campus of N.C. A&T, where there has been amassed a significant collection of photographs, letters, news clippings, movie film, tape recordings and paraphernalia dedicated to the New Farmers of America. In the pre-1964 South, membership was closed to young Black men and women, so the New Farmers of America was founded as a parallel organization. National leadership of the NFA came to rest at N.C. A&T.
N.C. A&T College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T University has been awarded a new grant to digitize its collection of materials belonging to a former national youth organization that helped train generations of Black farmers and leaders.
Principal investigator Netta Cox, an associate professor of library services and university librarian at the F.D. Bluford Library, looks through archived material in the F.D. Bluford library on the campus of N.C. A&T, which has a significant collection of photographs, letters, news clippings, movie film, tape recordings and paraphernalia dedicated to the New Farmers of America.
Investigators Netta Cox (left), head of serials and government documents at F.D. Bluford Library and is the library’s agricultural liaison, and Antoine Alston, Ph.D., a professor of agricultural education and associate dean of academic studies in A&T’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, pose in the archives of F.D. Bluford Library on the campus of N.C. A&T.
Principal investigator Netta Cox, a associate professor of library services and university librarian at the F.D. Bluford Library, looks through archived material in the F.D. Bluford Library on the campus of N.C. A&T, where there has been amassed a significant collection of photographs, letters, news clippings, movie film, tape recordings and paraphernalia dedicated to the New Farmers of America. In the pre-1964 South, membership was closed to young Black men and women, so the New Farmers of America was founded as a parallel organization. National leadership of the NFA came to rest at N.C. A&T.
