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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

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Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. The older Black farmers who were involved with the Pigford cases regret having gotten entangled with the industrial agriculture paradigm and the USDA, says McCurty of the Black Belt Justice Center.