The Homestead Act: How this Program Ignore Black Americans?

Despite the Homestead Act being designed to extend a helping hand to all Americans, black families hardly benefited from the program that granted each white family up to 160 acres of land in the west to farm, explains Shawn Rochester.

The Homestead Act: How this Program Ignore Black Americans?

Shawn Rochester, author of The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America, joins Former D.C. Mayor Pratt and Karen Tramontano to discuss causes for and possible solutions to the wealth divide on IPPH On Air’s episode, “In Depth – The Wealth Divide.” Available where you listen to your podcasts!
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