President of the Emergency Land Fund speaks about the problems facing the Black farmer. Explores the land owned by the Federal government and by Blacks, and the gradual loss of Black land.|THE DECLINE OF BLACK FARMLAND IN AMERICA / Joseph Brooks. - SERIES: One Handful of Dream Dust| no. 2. Joseph Brooks, president of the Emergency Land Fund addressed students on Tuskegee Institute in Alabama for Black History Month on February 17, 1983. In this address, he outlines the current situation of Black farmers, the amount of land owned by the federal government and private individuals, the loss of land by Black Americans, and the relationship of land loss by Blacks to their real estate in the American system. RECORDED: at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 17 February 1983. BROADCAST: WPFW, 16 September 1983.
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