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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.
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.
Italians also settled in the Mississippi Delta. The first immigrants came there in the 1880s, working to repair levees and staying as hired farm laborers on plantations. Some of these families became peddlers selling goods to farmers. In 1895, the first Italians came to the Sunnyside Plantation, across the Mississippi River in the Arkansas ...
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 ...
Rice court case involved an ethnic Chinese student in the Delta. 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 ...
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 ...
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The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) is a Federal-State partnership whose mission it is to improve the quality of life for the residents of the Mississippi Delta. The Delta Regional Authority serves 252 counties and parishes in parts of eight states: Alabama , Arkansas , Illinois , Kentucky , Louisiana , Mississippi , Missouri , and Tennessee .