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Eva M. Clayton: “I want to say the fight that we are making for the black farmers is also yielding for the betterment of small farmers…”

On the recordFebruary 24, 1998
I want to say the fight that we are making for the black farmers is also yielding for the betterment of small farmers and other minorities. I want to tell my colleagues that the farmers who are Indian that have come from their reservations saying they got no help are now joining with the black farmers. White women who have been discriminated in New Jersey are coming to our Committee on Agriculture saying, because of the fight, they saw the hearing and called and asked if they could participate. So fighting for little people has united our effort and our leadership to fight for all rural farmers in that area.
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Eva M. Clayton
North Carolina
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Addressing the support for black farmers and the unity among various minority groups in agriculture.

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