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Black Farmers Discrimination Suit Gets Senate Action

The Senate cleared a $1.15 billion appropriations measure Nov. 19 to settle a decades-old discrimination suit by black farmers, paving the way for one of the largest civil rights settlements in history, if the bill clears the House. The nation’s black farmers were awarded the money as apart of a larger $4.6 billion settlement awarded to them and Native American farmers. The action stems from the 1999 settlement of Pigford v. Glickman, a class-action lawsuit named after Timothy Pigford, a black farmer from North Carolina. Pigford’s suit claimed that black farmers received little or no U.S. Department of Agriculture support in the form of loans and grants compared to their white counterparts. Click here to read more.
 
 



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