Black Farming

Fannie Lou Hamer at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Fannie Lou Hamer
By United States Department of Agriculture - https://www.usda.gov/ (15 December 2020), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=900354
USDA Discrimination against African American Farmers
Extract from Interactive GIS map by Alabama State Lands Division - https://conservationgis.alabama.gov/dcnr/
Discriminatory legal land takings
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/.
Cotton Belt, United States
Restorative Justice for Indigenous and Black Farmers
The Valerie Grim Research Collection - IUScholarWorks
Pigford v Glickman

Black Entrepreneurs

Elleanor Eldridge - Lilly Library Holdings
Elleanor Eldridge
Report of Jeremiah Hamilton death (1875, May 22) The Daily Phoenix. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, Public Domain
Jeremiah G. Hamilton
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/.
Maggie Walker
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