Summary: Martin Luther King's 40 Acres and A Mule, Redeeming The Check... Rare Speech Footage. "At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any land, through an act of Congress our government was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor." ------- Click to Listen to Celebrate and Commemorate Black History Weekly with The Gist of Freedom www.BlackHistoryBLOG.com on iTunes www.BlackHistoryUniversity.com
