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Dispossession Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights / Pete Daniel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daniel, Pete.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farms, Small--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.
- Farms, Small.
- Racism--United States--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- African American farmers--Civil rights.
- African American farmers.
- United States. Department of Agriculture--Evaluation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (625 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival
- Contents:
- Intended consequences
- Evidence
- Freedom autumn
- Cheating democracy
- Dissolution
- Duality
- The case of Willie Strain
- Creditworthy
- The end game.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 265-305) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798893130270
- 9798890842275
- 9781469608143
- 1469608146
- 9781469602028
- 1469602024
- OCLC:
- 839305299
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