This is the perfect place to start a THREAD...
Historical attempts to sue the American government & others for #Reparations
Historical attempts to sue the American government & others for #Reparations
https://twitter.com/RobinGr08124639/status/1491855379965231104
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…
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…
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/…
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…...
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…
"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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
2001
Righting the Wrongs of Slavery
KEVIN HOPKINS
repository.law.uic.edu/cgi/viewconten…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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 !
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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