Ed Scott was the first-ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfish plant in the nation. The former sharecropper-turned-landowner was part of a class action lawsuit that resulted in one of the largest civil rights settlements in U.S. history. With the settlement of
Pigford v. Glickman in 1999, almost $1 billion has been issued to more than 13,000 African American farmers to date.
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