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Paperback Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights Book

ISBN: 1469622076

ISBN13: 9781469622071

Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights

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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 face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds...

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