History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1551 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The AAA and Black Farmers
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The idea
Forty percent of Black workers were sharecroppers and tenant farmers, Digital History records, so the acreage reductions of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration fell hard on them.
In practice
More than one hundred thousand Black farmers forced off the land in nineteen thirty-three and nineteen thirty-four.
Where people slip
Landlords, Digital History explains, earned more leaving land idle than farming it with tenants.
Your place on the trail
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