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Evanston Policies and Practices Directly Affecting the African American Community and California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans: Interim Report

Evanston Policies and Practices Directly Affecting the African American Community and California... Public History Reviews 623 Evanston Policies and Practices Directly Affecting the African American Community. Com- piled by Morris Robinson Jr. and Jenny Thompson .Evanston, Ill.: City of Evanston, 2021. Available at https://www.cityofevanston.org/home/showpublisheddocument/ 67191/637715545144570000. California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans: Interim Report. Sacramento: State of California, 20 2A 2v.ailable at https://oag.ca.gov/ ab3121. Evanston, Illinois, an au ffl ent and predominantly white suburb and home to North- west ern University, has become the first municipality to establish a commission for r - epa rations payments to African American families victimized by racially discriminatory housing policies and practices before 1968. Reparations mobilizations can be traced to the late nineteenth century in the campaigns to obtain pensions from the federal g - overn ment for formerly enslaved workers. In the late 1940s and 1950s, appeals were sent to the United Nations to support calls for reparations for descendants of formerly enslaved people in the United States. Following the awarding by the federal government o -f repa rations payments to Japanese Americans who had been interned in concentration camps during World War II, Detroit congressman John Conyers introduced House Resolution 40 in 1988—and in each subsequent session of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American History Oxford University Press

Evanston Policies and Practices Directly Affecting the African American Community and California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans: Interim Report

Franklin, V P
Journal of American History , Volume 109 (3): 6 – Dec 1, 2022
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Public History Reviews 623 Evanston Policies and Practices Directly Affecting the African American Community. Com- piled by Morris Robinson Jr. and Jenny Thompson .Evanston, Ill.: City of Evanston, 2021. Available at https://www.cityofevanston.org/home/showpublisheddocument/ 67191/637715545144570000. California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans: Interim Report. Sacramento: State of California, 20 2A 2v.ailable at https://oag.ca.gov/ ab3121. Evanston, Illinois, an au ffl ent and predominantly white suburb and home to North- west ern University, has become the first municipality to establish a commission for r - epa rations payments to African American families victimized by racially discriminatory housing policies and practices before 1968. Reparations mobilizations can be traced to the late nineteenth century in the campaigns to obtain pensions from the federal g - overn ment for formerly enslaved workers. In the late 1940s and 1950s, appeals were sent to the United Nations to support calls for reparations for descendants of formerly enslaved people in the United States. Following the awarding by the federal government o -f repa rations payments to Japanese Americans who had been interned in concentration camps during World War II, Detroit congressman John Conyers introduced House Resolution 40 in 1988—and in each subsequent session of

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Published: Dec 1, 2022

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