Peak of Black community land ownership and farming.
Date: 1919
In 1919, Black families own 16-19 million acres of land within the United States (14% of all agricultural land). There are 218,000 Black farmer-owners or partial owners of that land, most of them in the South. This acreage will decline every subsequent year due to white supremacist terror campaigns, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) loan discrimination, and many other forms of systemic racism.