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Featured are reflections on land and loss from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, the filmmaker, family members, an activist, a former slave, a scholar and a black farmer.
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From Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
You see, the farm said to them, see, see what
you can do... |
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Feedman's Quote to General Howard
General we want Homesteads, we were
promised Homesteads by the government... |
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Charlene Gilbert, filmmaker
When I was five my family left the South... |
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From Folk Traditions by August Wilson
We were a land based agrarian people
from Africa... |
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Ralph Paige, executive director Federation
of Southern Cooperatives
I can remember during the Civil Rights days... |
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J. W. Mathis
I remember my sister Earlene, when she got ready
to go to college... |
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Marsha Darling, professor
In a number interviews I asked black people
what does your farm mean... |
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Lynmore James, farmer
There's no question in my mind that a lot of land
has been lost, and it was lost because of
discrimination... |
