Please come out and check out this important film being screened by our board member, Ajamu Brown!
About the Film:
Pigford v. Glickman (1999) was a class action lawsuit against the
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), alleging racial
discrimination in its allocation of farm loans and assistance between 1983 and 1997. The lawsuit ended with a settlement on April 14, 1999, by Judge Paul L. Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. To date, almost US$1 billion has been paid or credited to more than 13,300 farmers under the settlement’s consent decree, under what is reportedly the largest civil rights settlement to date.
