Gilbert, Jess; Sharp, Gwen; Felin, M. Sindy - Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison - 2001
African-Americans as a group went from owning almost no land in the United States after the Civil War to peaking at 15 million acres by 1920. In that year, 14% of all US farmers were black. Of these 926,000 black farmers, all but 10,000 were in the South. By 1997, fewer than 20,000, or 1% of all...
