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for those who stayed on here in nicodemus, in the decades that followed, life here was a struggle, asr black farmers across the country who were largely excluded from critical government lending and price support programs. so, all this farmland here was black owned at one point. >> at one point, all of it. >> reporter: and now? >> maybe about 10% of it >> reporter: johnella holmess director of the kansas black farmers association. >> most of them that had to give up their land and their farm, they didn't walk away with a nest egg. >> reporter: what is the condition of black farmers today? >> dismal. they're still losing acres, they're still walking away from their farming. the parents are no longer encouraging the children to go ahead and assume the debt and, you know, and continue to farm. >> reporter: much of nicodemus lies in ruin today, but for holmes and others who call themselves descendants, there's something special about this place. that's why she moved back after retiring from hejob at kansas state university. >> both my parents grew up here, and their parents grew up here.