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New Laws Help Rural Black Families Fight for Their Land

Posted 2019 Reviewed June 29, 2021
Source
Pew Charitable Trusts
Author
April Simpson
About This News Article

When Karama Neal’s mother passed away in 2010, Neal became one of more than 150 heirs to 160 acres of family land in Arkansas first purchased in 1888 by her great-great-grandfather, Griffin Henry Belk, a former slave.

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