On Common Ground: International Perspectives on the Community Land TrustFifty years ago, African American activists in Albany, Georgia extended their political fight for civil rights into the economic realm by creating New Communities Inc. They had come to believe that owning land was essential to securing greater independence for their people. But landownership was out of reach for most African Americans in the Deep South of the 1960s and too easily lost if they did acquire a small farm, a plot of land, or a house in