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Article: Farming While Black.(black farmers and the United States Department of Agriculture)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- September 3, 2001
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has paid black farmers more than $575 million since April 1999 for past discrimination in the largest civil-rights award in U.S. history. But some black farmers believe USDA still wants them off the land. Insight sent a team to investigate their claims.
It was a stunning political turn-around. One week before last year's highly charged presidential election--while the Rev. Jesse Jackson and leaders from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People were jetsetting across America for Al Gore -- a group of black farmers from North Carolina and Georgia came out publicly for George W. Bush.
Just a few ...