The disparity in land grant funding from state sources between traditionally white institutions and traditionally black institutions in Louisiana and Mississippi: The role of agricultural development legislation |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Economics and Business & Centre for Land Tenure Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P. O. Box 5003, 1432 Ås, Norway;2. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D. C., USA;1. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Post Box 5003, 1432 Ås, Norway;2. Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA;3. Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI), Lusaka, Zambia;1. College of Business, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA, USA;2. Department of Social Sciences, Mississippi Valley State University, MS, USA;3. Faculty of Business Administration, St. Augustine University of Tanzania, Mwanza, Tanzania;4. International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Crops, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe;1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, 521 Agriculture Hall, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA;2. Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zambia, Box 32379, Lusaka, 10101, Zambia;3. School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 600 E. Greenfield Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53204, USA |
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| Abstract: | Senator Justin Morrill of Vermont as a young Congressman in 1862 obtained legislation for the establishment of colleges in the respective States for education in agriculture and the mechanic arts and including other fields of study. After 12 unsuccessful attempts. Senator Morrill obtained similar legislation in 1890 which permitted the establishment of such colleges for Blacks. In the meantime, agriculturalists of the period obtained legislation in agricultural research and extension in 1887 and 1913 respectively which was officially designated by Congress as progeny of the original 1862 legislation. These four acts and other such minor acts are referred to as land grant legislation. The Black land grant colleges and their Black clients have never significantly benefited on the State level from the 1887 and 1913 acts and only in the early 1970s did they begin benefiting from the federal funding in the 1913 Act. This article details and discusses the disparities and consequences of the lack of a rural development policy for Blacks and Black land colleges. |
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