Black Farmers Continue Fighting USDA Discrimination Under Pigford Settlement

The 1999 Pigford v. Glickman class action settlement acknowledged USDA systematically denied Black farmers loans and disaster assistance from 1981–1996. But the claims process was so restricted that tens of thousands of eligible farmers missed the deadline. Throughout the 2000s, advocates pushed Congress for a second round (Pigford II); an estimated 70,000 late filers eventually received payments under the 2010 Claims Resolution Act's $1.25 billion allocation.