Category: Reparations
“40 Acres & A Lie” Podcast On The Taking Away Of Land Distributed to Free African Americans Episode 1
“40 Acres & A Lie” is podcast from NPR on Sherman’s order giving land to freedmen on the Sea Islands in 1865. This is a…
Washington Post Database Identifies 1,700 Slaveowners In Senate and Congress
The Washington Post has put together a remarkable database of Members of Congress and Senators who owned slaves. You can find the article explaining the…
Franklin, Tennessee to Unveil Monument to Enslaved People on Nov. 9, 2019
Franklin, Tennessee has been engaged in a remarkable process of uncovering and displaying its history. Last month, the mid-sized city installed historical plaques explaining its…
People Still Care About History Say the 400,000 Americans Who Visited Lynching Memorial Last Year
Bryan Stevenson, author, lawyer, and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, was interviewed on WNYC today. The second segment covers the new memorial…
Calls for Reparative Justice for Slavery Began Soon After the End of the Civil War
The hearing this week in the House of Representatives on reparations for slavery was perhaps the most widely reported on event of the Reconstruction Sesquicentenial….