On a 2-acre property in Mississippi, 52-year-old Krystal Polk’s family lived off the land for generations, raising chickens and pigs, growing onions and herbs and trading their peaches for pears.
The land, on the border with Tennessee in the city of Southaven, was her family’s survival, Polk said. “We lived a very simplistic life,” she told CBS News.
While life there may have been simple in Polk’s view, the circumstances surrounding her home rarely ever were. Her family acquired the property”before people of color were allowed to have land,” she said, and it’s been passed down for four generations. When Polk’s parents first moved in, they discovered “KKK” scrawled at the bottom of the hill of their property, she said…