Farmer Letter to the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, 1955From my father R.A. Dougan Gentlemen: Enclosed is form MC 20gfilled out to the best of my ability. Inote that there is no provision madefor recording such expense items aspayroll taxes, repairs to plant andmachinery, plant rental, insurance,property tax, depreciation, advertising,telephone, office supplies and accounting,donations, […]
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Why are there so few black farmers?
Urging his fellow lawmakers to release funding for a discrimination lawsuit originally settled more than a decade ago, U.S. Sen. Roland Burris last month pointed to the increasingly homogenous culture that is Illinois farming. The still unreleased funding would go to farmers, or former farmers, who had been affected by systematic racial bias in the […]
