The Great Land Robbery: How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres
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The Great Land Robbery: How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres ([link removed])
Over the 20th century, black people in the U.S. were dispossessed of 12 million acres of land. Half of that loss — 6 million acres — occurred over just two ... Read More → ([link removed])
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