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Thomas W. Mitchell

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  • Henry Holt, a farmer near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, in 1937, who was moved off land by the Resettlement Administration.

    How the Government Helped White Americans Steal Black Farmland

    There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the USDA helped erase that source of wealth.
    by Darrick Hamilton, Thomas W. Mitchell, Nathan Rosenberg, Dania Francis, Bryce Wilson Stucki via The New Republic on May 5, 2022

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African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century

An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.
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