Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights by Pete Daniel

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

Pete Daniel

352 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history science sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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...

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