From Director Shirley M . Sherrod - “The Southwest Georgia Project is a sixty-year old service organization that covers a 14-county area. We began as a project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later incorporated and became a 501(c)3 know as The Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc. (SWGP). Our work over the years includes, but is not limited to, working on welfare rights, school integration, voter education, voter rights, Black land loss, and community organizing, which led to creating the first community land trust in the United States.”

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