The titles, it turned out, were the only two ever written about the New Farmers of America (NFA)—the nation’s first organization for youth studying vocational agriculture at Black segregated public high schools across the South and up the East Coast to New Jersey. Smith, a sociologist with a background in agricultural economics who teaches in […]

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