The 1890 Land-Grant Colleges: From the New Deal to the Black Farmers' Class-Action Lawsuit, 1930s-2010s

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2015

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University of Alabama Press

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https://hdl.handle.net/2022/27348

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The chapter focuses on a broad range of issues and topics to examine how the 1890 land-grant institutions addressed issues that Black families faced living in rural and agricultural America. Discussions focus on presidential leadership and the president’s operating philosophies concerning the mission of Black land-grants, their reactions to and assessment of certain components of the New Deal and related subsequential federal farm programs, educational outreach that addressed farm, family, and community needs, partnerships with government agencies and organizations, and Black land-grants’ responses to the Black farmers’ lawsuit against the USDA.

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African American land-grant colleges and universities, African American farmers

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Grim, Valerie. “The 1890 Land-Grant Colleges’ Work on Behalf of Black People: A Profile from the New Deal to the Black Farmers’ Class-Action Lawsuit, 1930s-2010s” in Service as Mandate: How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920-2015, edited by Alan Marcus, University of Alabama Press, 2015, pp. 80-114.

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