When pundits talk about rural America, the picture they paint is white. But in the South especially, some rural counties are majority Black, including long-standing farming families who have persevered on the land for generations despite discrimination that began just after Reconstruction and continued right into this century. Black farmers never got their forty acres and a mule, the promised reparation for their years of enslavement and the wealth their stolen labor had created for this country. Worse, they were systematically discriminated against by governments both local and federal. The
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