For Immediate Release: May 2, 2013 Contacts: Heather Gray
heathergray@federation.coop
404 765 0991
www.federation.coop Re Pigford Lawsuit: Studies, Reports, Articles, Book - 1960's to 2013
Disparity Studies & Recommendations from U.S. Government and Non-profits along with some relevant articles and Pete Daniel's recent book "Dispossession"
Note: In every decade since the 1960's there have been studies finding significant disparities in the services offered minority farmers by the USDA. We are providing a compilation below of some of these landmark studies and articles for your information and review. Almost all of these studies offer recommendations for change in policies at USDA. All of these studies can also be found on the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund's (Federation) website. (A few of these PDF files are large and might take a while to download.)
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Disparity Studies & Recommendations from the US Government and Non-profits (1965-2011) 1965
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1973 1982 1996 1997 2002 2011  | Workshop at the Federation's Training Center - Alabama
| Relevant Articles
2006 2007 African American farmers and civil rights.(Pigford v. Glickman)
Journal of Southern History - February 1, 2007 By Pete Daniel
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Criticisms of Pigford and our Responses
(1) "USDA's Pigford case: More claims than Black farmers"
By Sara Wyant, Washington, May 27, 2010
Response to Sara Wyant's article entitled:
"USDA's Pigford case: More claims than Black farmers"
By Heather Gray* and Ralph Paige** June 1, 2010
Response to Jon Harsch's article entitled:
By Heather Gray* October 6, 2010 by Pete Daniel (2013) University of North Carolina Press
Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure.
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Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights
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