Farmers and Land Loss: A Historical Perspective of the Systematic Loss of African American Farms from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Encyclopedia of African American History, Vol. 2, 2009

8 Pages Posted: 1 Jul 2009

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Lydie Pierre Louis

Fordham College of Law; Fordham Law School

Date Written: April 1, 2009

Abstract

This encyclopedia article analyzes the history of sharecropping and cooperative farming arrangements in which African-American farmers engaged in the United States since the Civil War. It traces the oppression that they suffered at the hands of Jim Crow laws, USDA policies, unfair white landowners, and depressing economic times, as well as the benefits they realized from organization, the development of self-sufficiency strategies, the Farm Security Administration, and the civil rights movement.

Keywords: farming, land loss, African American, freedmen, Field Order, racism, agriculture, sharecroppingm USDA, FSA, civil rights, land cooperatives

Suggested Citation

Pierre Louis, Lydie, Farmers and Land Loss: A Historical Perspective of the Systematic Loss of African American Farms from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (April 1, 2009). Encyclopedia of African American History, Vol. 2, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1427043

Lydie Pierre Louis (Contact Author)

Fordham College of Law ( email )

150 West 62 Street
New York, NY 10023
United States

Fordham Law School ( email )

150 West 62 Street
New York, NY 10023
United States

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