Freedom farmers. (Networks).(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, August, 2002
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TWO HUNDRED MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association spent their July 4 sitting in at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's regional offices in western Tennessee. The group alleges that the federal government has mishandled operating loans for local African-American farmers, and it ended its five-day sit-in only when U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman agreed to meet with the farmers and discuss their grievances.
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Since 1996, African-American farmers have lost their farms at a rate three times higher than white farmers and, according to ...
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