The Great Land Heist
At one time 15 percent of farmers in the United States were Black/African American. Today, that number has shrunken to less than two percent. Dr. Carol Francois and her niece Kourtney Square explain how land swindles, terror, massacres, lynchings, and sly legal maneuvering has robbed Black/African Americans of millions of acres of land. Look for us everywhere a this link https://linktr.ee/WATSA
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Citations
A Time to Act: A Report of the USDA National Commission on Small Farms, United States Department of Agriculture, 1998.
“Five ways to help black farmers,” Ruben Casteneda, U.S. News and World Report, Oct. 5, 2020.
“Land taken from blacks through trickery, violence, and murder Todd Lewan and Dolores Barclay,” The Associated Press, Published 10:00 pm PST, Saturday, December 1, 2001
“The heart of Sapelo,” Chris Dixon, Garden & Gun, June/July 2015.
https://gardenandgun.com/feature/the-heart-of-sapelo/
The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South, by Andrew W. Kahrl.
“When They Steal Your Land They Steal your Future”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-02-mn-10514-story.html
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