Dispossession : discrimination against African American farmers in the age of civil rights /

Dispossession : discrimination against African American farmers in the age of civil rights / Pete Daniel.

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Publisher's description: Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594 - a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the...

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Main Author: Daniel, Pete
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Subjects:
United States. > Department of Agriculture > Evaluation.
African American farmers > Civil rights.
Racism > United States > History > 20th century.
Farms, Small > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Intended consequences
  • Evidence
  • Freedom autumn
  • Cheating democracy
  • Dissolution
  • Duality
  • The case of Willie Strain
  • Creditworthy
  • The end game.

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