The ABA Journal’s far-reaching journalistic coverage means we often have to assign photography in remote places. When we’ve needed shots of legal coverage in the Mississippi Delta, author Julian Rankin has been our go-to guy. Often times, our photographers and illustrators lead interesting lives, and when they’ve shown to produce or experience something remarkable, the Journal occasionally shines the spotlight back on them.
In this instance, Rankin authored an award-winning book hinged upon one of the largest civil rights settlements in U.S. history. With the settlement of Pigford v. Glickman in 1999, almost $1 billion dollars has been issued to over 13,000 African-American farmers to date. In 2010, the second half of the case was settled for another $1.2 billion in Pigford II.
In this episode of the Modern Law Library, join me as I speak with Julian Rankin about one man’s inspirational story and his struggle for racial justice as an enterprising farmer in the Mississippi Delta.
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