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

The Equation

The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, another opportunity for land ownership was presented through sharecropping and tenant farming. Moreover, many of them accumulated debt, faced foreclosures, and subsequently lost their land.

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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Theyre as fertile as can be. flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. Thats not what happened along the Mississippi.

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