This is the perfect place to start a THREAD...
Historical attempts to sue the American government & others for #Reparations
An invaluable .pdf on past attempts to litigate for #Reparations
By Eric J. Miller highlighting Professor Charles J. Olgetree Jr's work...
harvardblackletter.org/wp-content/upl…
12/04/95
Cato's complaint seeks compensation $100,000,000 for forced, ancestral indoctrination into a foreign society; kidnapping of ancestors from Africa; forced labor; breakup of families; removal of traditional values; deprivations of freedom...
caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit…
"Jewel, Joyce, Howard & Edward Cato.. Leerma & Charles Patterson, & Bobbie Trice Johnson (“Cato”), filed nearly identical complaints in forma pauperis against USA for damages due to enslavement of African Americans & subsequent discrimination.. discrimination & for an apology.
Written in 1972..
Boris Bittker
The Case for Black Reparations
"America's debt to African-Americans.. Published by Toni Morrison.. Bittker was a white professor of law at Yale University who had long been ambivalent about the idea of #Reparations "
amazon.com/dp/B001M5U070/…
"Bittker carefully illuminates the historical provisions and statutes for legitimate claims to reparations, the national and international precedents for such claims, and most important, the obstacles to a national policy of #Reparations "
Repairing the Past:
New Efforts in the Reparations Debate in America
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Full Chapter...
paperzz.com/doc/8014685/re…...
Derrick A. Bell Jr. was a JUGGERNAUT in Black American racial political writing & dissecting the issues that afflict us.
"Bell was born to a working-class family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania"
blackpast.org/african-americ…
Nearly 30 years ago...
The EXACT SAME issues...
Time loop, NOTHING has changed for Black Americans.
"Derrick Albert Bell Jr. was the first tenured African-American professor of law at Harvard Law School & is largely credited as one of the originators of critical race theory (CRT)"
A Black Master Educator who will be studied in Black State Curriculum.
goodreads.com/author/show/45…
August 3, 2011
Proponents of Extracting Slavery Reparations From Private Interests Must Contend with Equity's Maxims
Charles E. Rounds, Jr.
jdsupra.com/legalnews/prop…
In 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed nine
class actions that African-American descendants of slaves had brought against certain private corporations, thus upholding the trial court’s decision.
caselaw.findlaw.com/us-7th-circuit…
Forgive U.S. Our Debts?
2001
Righting the Wrongs of Slavery
KEVIN HOPKINS
.pdf
repository.law.uic.edu/cgi/viewconten…
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
Randall Robinson
2000
c-span.org/video/?154994-…
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
Randall Robinson
2000
"white Americans can make reparations for slavery & the century of racial discrimination that followed with monetary restitution, educational programs & .. equal opportunities"
amazon.com/Debt-What-Amer…
Rare white allies...
2004
GIVE THEM THEIR DUE: AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN REPARATIONS PROGRAM BASED ON THE NATIVE AMERICAN
FEDERAL AID MODEL
Mishael A. Danielson
Alexis Pimentel
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewconten…
1993
The Master's Tools, from the Bottom Up: Responses to African-American Reparations Theory in Mainstream and Outsider Remedies Discourse
Rhonda V. Magee
University of San Francisco
Pages 868-872
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.…
1993
The Master's Tools, from the Bottom Up: Responses to African-American Reparations Theory in Mainstream and Outsider Remedies Discourse
Rhonda V. Magee
University of San Francisco
Pages 873-876
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.…
2004
A Framework for Reparations Claims
Keith N. Hylton
lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewconten…
Let me say...
We could build a 4 year prospectus curriculum just on Black American attempts at collecting, suing, litigating, studying, advocating, calculating & contemplating how we get our just compensation & righteous repair from the US government !!!
Bachelor Degree level !
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