The challenges of documenting land ownership among African-American farmers are also explained in this 66-minute webinar titled: Roots of the Soil: Land Succession Issues among African American Farm Families. It was produced by Purdue University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N28dnYHe4- k&feature=youtu.be&_ga=2.109731597.96777910 6.1612569596-1640754615.1612569596
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Many African American farmers have difficulty documenting land ownership. One family who can document their history is the Greer family of Lyle Station, Illinois. Shown here is Norman Greer, honored by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History as the last living African American farmer to farm on family land owned pre-Civil War (1855).
Photo provided by Denise Greer Jamerson
Discrimination and distress contribute to physical and mental health problems (Paradies et al., 2015). Studies of stress among farmers have included Black farmers but none were found to have analyzed the data by race or to have focused on racial similarities or differences.
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