Abstract
Valerie Grim indicates that black farmers have still not won the long struggle for equal rights. In 1999, for the first time in American history, black farmers brought a successful class action law suit, Pigford v. Glickman, against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the institution they called the “Last Plantation.” For years black farmers claimed discrimination in federally funded agricultural programs (for example, Extension Service, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, and Farmers Home Administration). The USDA did nothing to prevent local and state agricultural agencies charged with implementation of its federal farm programs from establishing oppressive and racist operational practices and procedures. Grim claims that black farmers placed their land loss and other related agricultural and farming struggles right in the middle of the contentious civil rights struggle in the United States.
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