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Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights
Dispossession Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights
Author: Pete Daniel
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 exp...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781469602011
ISBN-10: 1469602016
Publication Date: 3/29/2013
Pages: 336
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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