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Woman Fights to Keep Her Land

By AAN Staff
january 23, 2002  10:53 am
Woman Fights to Keep Her Land
Rose Farley of the Dallas Observer tells the riveting story of Murdine "Baby Ruth" Berry, who fought a years-long legal battle to get back the bulk of the 100 acres her great-grandfather, a freed slave, paid a couple of bales of cotton to possess. Farley details not only Berry's long struggle to keep possession of the family farm, but the emotional scars it left on her. "If they think I'm going anywhere, I'm not going anywhere," Berry tells the Observer. "I'll stay here. I don't intend to give it up. I'm a fighting monster."
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