Lending Organization Discrimination
Shirley Miller Sherrod oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Albany, Georgia, 2011 September 15. Courtesy of the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Civil Rights History Project (U.S.).
![[Photograph of Allis-Chalmers all-crop harvester and tractor being sold to E. V. White at his farm, Hartwell, Hart County, Georgia, ca. 1940 ]](/images/337/full/!800,800/0/default.jpg)
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Hartwell, ca. 1940. Allis-Chalmers all-crop harvester and tractor being sold to E. V. White at his farm. The tractor was purchased through a cooperative loan from the Farm Security Administration.
Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia collection.
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The Douglas Enteprise advertises private loans for farmers.
Courtesy of Georgia Newspaper Project, Georgia Historic Newspapers.
After the infestations of the boll weevil, federal and state resources were allotted to bail out struggling farms. But participating organizations frequently discriminated against African Americans through usurious interest rates, denial of benefits, or arbitrary restrictions on loans. As a result, many African American farmers could not afford to maintain their farms, and many were forced to sell their farms altogether.