Black Mississippi farm workers file suit alleging that growers are passing them over...
Story Date: 11/16/2021

 

Source: DeArbea Walker, YAHOO NEWS, 11/12/21


Black Mississippi farmers have filed a lawsuit against Pitts Farms Partnership alleging the company is passing over native-born residents for white South Africans and paying them more. "I never did imagine that it would come to the point where they would be hiring foreigners, instead of people like me," Richard Strong, one of the six men listed as a plaintiff in the suit, told The New York Times.

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