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  2. Young Farmers (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Young Farmers (1914) by August Sander. Young Farmers, also known as Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance, is a black and white photograph taken by August Sander in 1914. It is one of his better known photographs and it was included in his photographic book Face of Our Time (1929).

  3. Anthony Johnson (colonist) - Wikipedia

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    Research indicates that when Johnson died in 1670, his plantation was given to a white colonist, not to Johnson's children. A judge had ruled that he was "not a citizen of the colony" because he was black. [14] In 1677, Anthony and Mary's grandson, John Jr., purchased a 44-acre (18-hectare) farm, which he named Angola. John Jr. died without ...

  4. So God Made a Farmer - Wikipedia

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    Both the 1940 and 1975 columns share elements not included in the speech such as the statement that a farmer's wife won't let him starve. [9] [10] In the "So God Made a Farmer" speech and Harvey's 1986 column, only two phrases and a few words remain from Blackwood's 1940 piece including the phrase, "can shape an axe handle from a persimmon sprout".

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  6. Black Farmers Are Dispossessed. How Did We Get Here? - AOL

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    In contrast, 95% of US farmers are White, and since Black farmers own so much less acreage than White farmers, their average income is less than $40,000 annually. For White farmers, that average ...

  7. History of African-American agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Raper, Arthur F. Preface to peasantry: A tale of two black belt counties (1936, reprinted Univ of South Carolina Press, 2005), a classic study of Black Belt life excerpts; Online free to borrow. Reynolds, Bruce J. Black farmers in America, 1865-2000: the pursuit of independent farming and the role of cooperatives (US

  8. Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union

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    The Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union was formed in 1886 in Texas.Despite the fact that both black and white farmers faced great difficulties due to the rising price of farming and the decreasing profits which were coming from farming, the protective organization known as the Southern Farmers' Alliance did not allow black farmers to join.

  9. Farmers' Alliance - Wikipedia

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    The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca. 1875. The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations — the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the South, the National Farmers' Alliance among the white and black farmers of the Midwest and High ...