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A Brief History of Discrimination against Black Farmers—Including by the USDA

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has acknowledged its extensive history of discrimination directed at Black farmers and other marginalized groups. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. Many experienced tremendous economic loss and lost their land as a result.

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A Brief History of Discrimination against Black Farmers—Including by the USDA

The Equation

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has acknowledged its extensive history of discrimination directed at Black farmers and other marginalized groups. The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. Many experienced tremendous economic loss and lost their land as a result.