Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100727:01:48:00
We've lost millions of acres over the past decades, and we've been fighting this lawsuit, the black farmers versus the united states department of agriculture, for many, many years. the first settlement was settled in 1999 with 22,000 black farmers able to go through that process. 14,000 black farmers were meritous, and after that the government fought us tooth and nail on class notification, so nearly 70,000 black farmers came after the filing deadline. >> let's just -- it seems like there was a settlement in 1999. then people came forward. the usda was reviewing each person, right, to see if...