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- Reparation noun the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged
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- Native American Reparations: Belated Payment For Unjustly Seized Land
- Native Hawaiian Reparations: Land Leases For The Overthrow of A Kingdom
- Tuskegee Experiment Reparations: Compensation For Medical Brutality
- People of Japanese Descent: Reparations For Internment During World War II
- Will The U.S. Ever Pay Reparations For Slavery?
World War II sparked a movement to address one of the United States’ historic wrongs: its treatment of Native Americans over centuries of conquest and colonization. Native Americans enlisted in World War II in disproportionately high numbers: 44,000, or nearly 13 percent of the entire population of Native Americans at the time,servedas code talkers...
Beginning in 1893, Native Hawaiians’ extensive land holdings were taken by the federal government in the wake of itsoverthrowof the Kingdom of Hawai’i. The loss of lands had actually begun earlier: As white businesses flocked to Hawaii in the late 19th century, they bought up huge swaths of land and established plantations. As low-paid workers floc...
In some cases, federal and state governments have made payments to people harmed by brutality. In 1973, for example, the U.S. began an attempt at reconciliation for theTuskegee Experiments, in which 600 black men were unknowingly left untreated for syphilis after being misled by officials who involuntarily enrolled them in a “treatment program.” Th...
TheCivil Liberties Act of 1988Congressman Mineta spearheaded was a watershed moment for survivors of historical injustices. Though the United States did allow internees to file claims for damages or property loss after World War II, it had never paid reparations. That changed after the bill, which apologized for Japanese American internment and gra...
Despite the success of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, however, the United States has yet to tackle reparations for another glaring injustice: the enslavement of Africans from the earliest days of colonization to the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865, and the long period of economic inequality and civil rights violations that followed. Though ...
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Reparations, a levy on a defeated country forcing it to pay some of the war costs of the winners. The most prominent example is the reparations levied on Germany after World War I to compensate the Allies for some of their war costs. Learn more about reparations and their use in this article.
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Dec 9, 2020 · Tracing everything from the racial terror of slavery to the rampant housing discrimination of the 20th century, Coates made the case for financial reparations for the descendants of those...
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Jun 14, 2022 · Defining Reparations. Episode 1 | 26m 49s |. My List. A panel of experts define and contextualize reparations and explore how it could close the racial wealth gap.
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Apr 2, 2024 · Reparations, in this context, means a comprehensive federal program that would repair the impacts of slavery and its legacies of discriminatory policies. To begin, we must be clear on the violations of our democratic principles and what racial repair entails.
Mar 18, 2019 · A collective, land-based approach to reparations makes particular sense as a remedy to redress the dire injustice suffered by humans who were treated as property.
