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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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Q&A: A New Book Tells the Story of Food, From the Civil Rights Movement to Now

Daily Yonder

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Then chapter two looks at one side of the food power politics conversation but gets more into the mechanics of that process. Each Monday, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here?

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