Black farmers group campaigns for amending USDA suit
Monday, June 14, 2004 at 02:54AM
TheSpook
About 3,000 people at a Montgomery seminar
heard plans by a black farmers group to amend a consent decree in a
discrimination suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The
Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association Inc. is pressuring
Congress for hearings on the suit while going through the courts to
expand the number of farmers eligible for paymeUnder the consent
decree, more than 30,000 black farmers were supposed to get several
billion dollars from the government. So far, only about 13,000 eligible
farmers have received $50,000 each. [more]
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