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The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Cosby, A.G. et al. A Social and Economic Portrait of the Mississippi Delta (1992) online (Alternate, Archive) Currie, James T. Enclave: Vicksburg and Her Plantations, 1863-1870. 1980. Dollard, John.
In the Mississippi Delta where Hamer founded her project, African American farmers lost approximately 12 million acres of land– six million of which was between 1950 and 1964, shortly before Hamer began the farm.
L.V. Jackson, a retired farmer, and his brother-in-law James Melvin Johnson Sr. pose for a portrait on a part of Johnson’s 40 acres of farmland in Jackson, Tenn., on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023.
The Delta and Providence Cooperative Farms were started in Bolivar County, Mississippi, in 1936; and Holmes County, Mississippi, in 1939, respectively.The farms were founded and run by missionary evangelist and author Sherwood Eddy, and Reverend Sam H. Franklin, with the goal of helping southern sharecroppers out of their economic plight (caused in part by side effects of the New Deal's ...
Farmers and ranchers who have experienced discrimination in USDA farm lending have the opportunity to receive up to $500,000 of financial assistance. ... The settlement was for almost $1 billion ...
The population of the Mississippi Delta Chinese exploded after war. Many young Chinese men from the Mississippi Delta served as soldiers during the Second World War, and many women from China married these soldiers and settled in the Delta as war brides after the war. By the 1970s there were as many as 3,000 Americans of Chinese descent living ...
More than 23,000 farmers were approved for payments ranging from $10,000 to $500,000, according to the USDA. ... National Black Farmers Association Founder and President John Boyd Jr. said the aid ...
Pigford v. Glickman (1999) was a class action lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), alleging that it had racially discriminated against African-American farmers in its allocation of farm loans and assistance from 1981 to 1996.