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Discrimination at usda, by the year 2000, they will be virtually no black-owned farmland. we saw that happening and knew that a lawsuit had to happen. that was the only other way. wi we had tried everything else. the only other thing left was to file a lawsuit against usda. what i love is that this part of the story about black farmers and about the rural battles has been so lost. yet, there are these interesting moments of interracial interception that occur in them. my favorite moment as distressing and as disturbing as the entire case around your words in 2010 was that willie nelson became one of the most vocal public voices that showed up and was like, y all are not going to say this about miss sherrod. he said, this is the work farmers have been doing. he said your real story deserved to be telling a long time ago, that you had an amazing impact ....
Evelyn and mark. once the movement let me go back. i have to go back. you are allowed. yes. coming out of the civil rights movement and realizing that as we were getting people to exercise their rights, they were being kicked off the land that others owned, so we came up with the idea of trying to build a community for these people. new communities was born. we had 6,000 acres of land due to discrimination at usda, we lost that land in 1985. 12 years. about 15 years we had it. then, i started working with the federation of southern cooperatives to help black farmers not only in southwest georgia but throughout the south. we were looking at the fact that black farmers were losing so much farmland and even the u.s. commission on civil rights kept sounding the alarm saying if you don t do something about ....
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