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HR0152LRB104 12446 MST 22769 r

1HOUSE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, Farming as a family-owned and independent 

3business has been an important part of the social and economic 

4development of Illinois and the United States; and

5 WHEREAS, Black farmers in America have had a long struggle 

6to own land and operate independently; for more than a century 

7after emancipation and the ratification of the 13th Amendment 

8that abolished slavery, various economic and social barriers 

9were discriminatorily applied towards Black farmers, and the 

10few existing civil rights laws were rarely enforced; and

11 WHEREAS, Pembroke Township, founded by self-emancipated, 

12escaped enslaved people, was once home to the largest 

13community of Black farmers in the north; and

14 WHEREAS, In 1920, Illinois had 892 Black farmers, and 

15African Americans owned 14 percent of the nation's farmland; 

16and

17 WHEREAS, According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 

18National Statistics Service, as of April 2019, Illinois had 

1972,000 farms, covering 27 million acres, which is 

20approximately 75% of the State's total land area; and

HR0152- 2 -LRB104 12446 MST 22769 r

1 WHEREAS, As of the 2017 USDA Agricultural Census, there 

2were 188 individually Black-owned farms, which are a combined 

340,412 acres; out of the 116,417 agricultural producers in 

4Illinois, 267 are Black; and

5 WHEREAS, As farming has become a big business, it has 

6become one of the least diverse business sectors in our State, 

7and the pressure to consolidate has reduced the ranks of 

8family and independent farmers for the past century; and

9 WHEREAS, The scarcity of African American farmers stems 

10from the troubled history of the U.S.; for sharecroppers,