Category: History Publisher: Lulu
Pages: 247
Copyright: 200
ISBN-13: 9781430319856
Land is the basis of power and has been for thousands of years. When African American farmers were lynched and run off millions of acres of farmland which they owned in the American south, they were effectively disenfranchised politically and economically. Today, every generation of African Americans has to start at ground zero with little inherited property,
Under the noses of a race-based power structure, blacks quietly acquired millions of acres of farmland in the American South. Contrary to the common view that lynching resulted from black mens' attacks on white women, reality is that lynching was part of an organized campaign to run black land and property owners off their land and property.
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century ago, the segregated South had a deep secret--black farmers owned the majority of farmland in the region. Then came the 1910 Census results along with an organized effort to drive black farmers off the land. Through lynching and intimidation, and predatory use of federal farm loan programs, hundreds of thousands of black farmers, 90% of African-American farmers, were driven from the land through a 60 year orgy of lynching, murder, intimidation and theft. Many found refuge in factory towns and became middle class through factory work, especially in the auto industry. Others gathered in segregated ghettos in the nation's urban hell holes and continue to fuel the nation's prisons. Many claim the goal of federal farm policy is to drive family farmers out of business in favor of corporate agri-businesses.
Experience the early 20th century in Michigan's Upper Peninsula through the artistic camera lens of J.W. Nara, one of the Copper Country's earliest professional photographers. This collection of historic photos brings the "Copper Boom" era back to li
