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1820-1864
1865-1921
1922-1949
1950-1979
1980-2020
Stories
Black Wall Streets: Centers of Business Life
Early Black Communities
Indiana spotlight
Allies
Torn from their Land: The 2001 Associated Press Investigative Report
Black Farming & Entrepreneurship
Afro-Indigenous Intersections in the USA
For Educators
Resources & Acknowledgments
Contributors
Content Warning and Fair Use Statement
Land, Wealth, Liberation Launch Event
Stories
> Black Farming & Entrepreneurship
Black Farming
Fannie Lou Hamer
USDA Discrimination against African American Farmers
Discriminatory legal land takings
Cotton Belt, United States
Restorative Justice for Indigenous and Black Farmers
The Valerie Grim Research Collection - IUScholarWorks
Pigford v Glickman
Black Entrepreneurs
Elleanor Eldridge
Jeremiah G. Hamilton
Maggie Walker
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![Lange, D., photographer. (1938) The Black Wax area of Texas is the outstanding cotton producing section of the western cotton belt. Near Georgetown, Texas. Williamson County Georgetown United States Texas, 1938. June. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) https://www.loc.gov/item/2017770656/.](https://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/iulibraries/files/square/3f00555280e1fadc71bba485549b9aac2d56ab72.jpg)
![Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, Virginia. [Washington, D.C.: The National Park Service] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010586334/.](https://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/iulibraries/files/square/de351417ae6897b375690b710db5dab3bdcaaa8b.jpg)