President Obama signs a copy of the black farmers bill for
John Boyd, also in the Photo is Adrian Boyd
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I’m a fourth-generation farmer, and my dad is a farmer. My dad’s father was a farmer, his father was a farmer, and his father was a slave. The farm that my grandfather had has been in the family for over 100 years and passed down from generation to generation .
Nyack NAACP 53rd Annual Dinner
April 25, 2012
In the late 1980s, John Boyd was a hard working fourth-generation Virginia farmer just trying to stay ahead. When his loan request was turned down again and again by the Dept. of Agriculture and his requests for other forms of state assistance available for farmers were ignored, John...
