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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.
On July 19, 2010, Shirley Sherrod was fired from her appointed position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture. [1] [2] Her firing was an administration reaction to media reports on video excerpts from her address to an event of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in March 2010 and commentary posted by ...
Black American farmers are more likely to rent rather than own the land on which they live, which in turn made them less likely to be able to afford to buy land later. [17] In the year 2010, President Barack Obama authorized the payment of 1.25 billion dollars from the USDA to black American farmers as a settlement in Pigford v. Glickman.
“White farmers have received all of the debt relief in this country,” said Boyd. “The whole 30 years I’ve been asking for debt relief, they’ve been getting it, and they’ve been getting ...
The White House on Wednesday touted its efforts to provide relief for Black American farmers on the same day that The post Biden administration defends record amid class action lawsuit from Black ...
A group of American farmers, all of them white, is suing the government for race-based discrimination, alleging that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s loan forgiveness program for ...
Located in Lee County, Georgia, the 5,700-acre (23 km 2) project was one of the largest tracts of black-owned land in the U.S. [18] [20] The project soon encountered difficulties in the opposition of area white farmers, who accused participants of being communists, [6] and also from segregationist Democratic Governor Lester Maddox, who ...
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