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Studies conducted during the same period indicated that 2 in 3 black women from black landowning families were involved in cotton farming. [21] In 1920, 24% (218,612) of farms in the nation were Black-operated, less than 1% (2,026) were managed by Black people, and 76% (705,070) of Black farm operators were tenants.
February – Black History Month is founded by Carter Woodson's Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. The novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley is published. 1977. Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist group, publishes the Combahee River Collective Statement.
The American anti-vivisection movement fails to take hold as it did in Britain, which passed the first national regulations on animal experimentation in 1876. No significant regulations on animal experimentation are passed in the US during this period. [7] 1889: George Angell founds the American Humane Education Society. [28] 1907
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During the U.S. Civil War, more than 178,000 Black soldiers served across 175 regiments, making up 10% of the Union Army's soldiers and representing the key to the Union's victory.
On November 15, press reported a slain cow on the Don Peter farm near Munden, the seventh animal death attributed to the "butcher". [21] The November 22 issue of the Belleville Telescope again referenced the "Mad Dog Cattle Butcher". [22] Cattle Mutilations by county in Kansas and Nebraska, as of December 13, 1973 [23]
February is Black History Month. The commemoration began nearly a hundred years ago when historian Carter G. Woodson initiated a week-long observance back in 1926. That recognition evolved over ...