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Paperback. Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594 - a drop of 93%. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyses this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the US Department of Agriculture. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFSL3; JPP; JPVH1; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469622071
SKU
V9781469622071
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Ref
99-15
About Pete Daniel
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., USA. This is his seventh book.
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