And it is becoming more dire as sea levels rise, which she says is resulting in more families experiencing raw sewage backed up into their homes and yards. Sometimes theyre even lured to pick up the phone under false pretenses. When he left a lucrative law firm job to study the way property rights laws have affected Black landowners since the Civil War, he was told it was a dead end. What you just described is what we call career suicide, Mitchell remembers a colleague telling him. But Mitchell, 55, turned his research into legal activism and has succeeded in getting laws detrimental to Black landowners revised in 17 states.
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Black landowners use firearms to defend themselves in local disputes .
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