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Nation
The country, reported without doom.
Five dollars an acre
Fifteen hundred Black farmers in north Louisiana bought the land, put up the building, and ran the school for two terms before they asked anybody for help.
He bought it with the Bureau’s money
The head of the Freedmen's Bureau used Bureau funds to buy the campus of the university named after him. Then the university sold him an acre of it, cheap, and he built a house on it. The house is still there.
Rated A. Not a member.
In 1933 the all-white Southern Association graded Wiley excellent — and told it not to consider itself one of them. Membership took another twenty-seven years.
So now we have it
They sued to stop a Black university from being pushed out of New Orleans. They lost. Then they went and found somebody who could buy the building.
The land was not taken. It was divided.
Ninety percent of Black-owned farmland is gone. The mechanism has a name almost nobody knows.