Equal Opportunity in Farm Programs
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : African American farmers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : African American farmers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : African American farmers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : African American farmers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights. Georgia Advisory Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : African American farmers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of Equal Opportunity |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Affirmative action programs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : African American farmers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States Commission on Civil Rights |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : African American farmers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pete Daniel |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-03-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469602024 |
Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States Government Accountability Office |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2017-10-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781976419881 |
For decades, there have been allegations of discrimination in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs and workforce. Reports and congressional testimony by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a former Secretary of Agriculture, USDA's Office of Inspector General, GAO, and others have described weaknesses in USDA's programs-in particular, in resolving complaints of discrimination and in providing minorities access to programs. The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 authorized the creation of the position of Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR), giving USDA an executive that could provide leadership for resolving these long-standing problems. This testimony focuses on USDA's efforts to (1) resolve discrimination complaints, (2) report on minority participation in USDA programs, and (3) strategically plan its efforts. This testimony is based on new and prior work, including analysis of ASCR's strategic plan; discrimination complaint management; and about 120 interviews with officials of USDA and other federal agencies, as well as 20 USDA stakeholder groups. USDA officials reviewed the facts upon which this statement is based, and we incorporated their additions and clarifications as appropriate. GAO plans a future report with recommendations.