Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights

Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop...
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Author: Pete Daniel
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Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights by Daniel, Pete

Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights

$742.91

Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights

$742.91
Author: Pete Daniel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 in a capital-intensive farm structure.

More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.



Author: Pete Daniel
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/01/2015
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.27w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9781469622071

About the Author
Daniel, Pete: - Pete Daniel has been both a professor of history and a public historian. He has served as president of the Southern Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians, and he currently lives in Washington, D.C. This is his seventh book.

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