John Boyd Calls for Boycott of Ford Motor Company
That historic pattern survives in modern Tennessee, according to John W. Boyd, Jr. , president of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA).
- That historic pattern survives in modern Tennessee, according to John W. Boyd, Jr. , president of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA).
- We lose our land, and their companies grow larger at the Black farmers' expense," Boyd charged.
- Boyd, who farms in Baskerville, Virginia, declared the Ford Company deal a "national disgrace," adding, "we are facing extinction."
- He said the NBFA has requested a meeting with Ford company executives to explore solutions to the Tennessee project's negative effects on Black farmers.