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The decline (and revival?) of black farmers and rural landowners : a review of the research literature

Gilbert, Jess Carr; Sharp, Gwen; Felin, M. Sindy (Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001)

African-Americans as a group went from owning almost no land in the United States after the Civil War to peaking at 15 million acres by 1920. In that year, 14% of all US farmers were black. Of these 926,000 black farmers, ...