Gilbert, Jess; Sharp, Gwen; Felin, M. Sindy - Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison - 2001
million acres by 1920. In that year, 14% of all US farmers were black. Of these 926,000 black farmers, all but 10,000 were in … the South. By 1997, fewer than 20,000, or 1% of all farmers, were black, and they owned only about two million acres. The … farmers by sub-region, state, farm size, tenure, crops raised, and social and economic situation. …