Pigford v. Glickman

Decided 1999-04-14

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*85 OPINION PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, District Judge. Forty acres and a mule. As the Civil War drew to a close, the United States government created the Freedmen’s Bureau to provide assistance to former slaves. The government promised to sell or lease to farmers parcels of unoccupied land and land that had been confiscated by the Union during the wa…

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