Of all the calamities that have struck the rural Negro people in the South in recent decades—soil erosion, the infiltration of white tenants into pla… - Gunnar Myrdal

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Of all the calamities that have struck the rural Negro people in the South in recent decades—soil erosion, the infiltration of white tenants into plantation areas, the ravages of the boll weevil, the southwestern shift in cotton cultivation—none has had such grave consequences, or threatens to have such lasting effect, as the combination of world agricultural trends and federal agricultural policies initiated during the thirties.