Federal Payments To Black Kansas Farmers Come Too Late For Generations Who Faced Discrimination
Kansas News Service Bernard Bates holds a notebook of documents from the lawsuits he's been a part of while trying to get his farmland back. The federal government plans to send payments to Black farmers this summer to compensate for loans and aid they lost out on during generations of discrimination. In Nicodemus, Kansas, farmers say the help has come too late. NICODEMUS, Kansas — At his home in northwest Kansas, Bernard Bates thumbs through a stack of faded color photographs nearly 40 years old. One shows a group of men in county sheriff’s jackets standing in front of a combine. In an...
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