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“After the end of the Civil War and the outlawing of enslavement, the United States went through a process known as Reconstruction, a period of rebuilding and reuniting the country. Abraham Lincoln had begun this process during the Civil War.”

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“But Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 put Reconstruction in the hands of his vice-president, Andrew Johnson, and Republicans in Congress.

Johnson wanted to keep white people in charge of the South and opposed giving equal political rights to African Americans.” #Reparations ImageImage
Former enslavers refused to acknowledge African Americans’ new freedom. In every ex-Confederate state, white southerners passed laws called “Black Codes.” Black Codes included vagrancy laws that allowed police to arrest any Black person without an employer and force them to work. Image
Republicans in Congress would have to force former enslavers in the South to treat the formerly enslaved fairly, equally, and w/ basic human dignity. Republicans briefly considered passing laws that would take away land from wealthy Confederates and give it to formerly enslaved.. Image of plaque recognizing...
“Immediately before the end of the Civil War, Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to provide for the welfare of formerly enslaved African Americans, including through “issues of provisions, clothing, and fuel, as [necessary]…” #ReparationsNow Image
“Commonly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, the agency had the authority to supervise labor relations in the South, with the mandate to provide education, medical care, and legal protections for formerly enslaved African Americans…” #Reparations Image
“The original goal of the Freedmen’s Bureau Act was the more radical notion of allowing African Americans the means to become self-sufficient.”

#ReparationsNow #Reparations Image
At the end of the Civil War, Union General Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, setting aside 400k acres of land for those who had been freed, and 2 months later, the Freedmen’s Bureau formalized the order,“providing that each negro might have 40 acres at a low price…”⬇️⬇️ Image
Office of Superintendent of Freedmen: “In accordance with Major General Sherman’s Order No. 15, permission is hereby granted to Richard Brown to take possession of and occupy forty acres of land, situated in St. Andrews Parish, Island of James, South Carolina.”#Reparations #AHA23 Image

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More from @KamilahVMoore

May 31
🧵 Excited to share updates on California’s 16 slavery/lineage based-reparations and racial equity bills aimed at addressing historical and ongoing injustices faced by descendants of slaves. These bills are a significant step towards reparatory justice. Let’s break them down: Image
2/ 📜 SB 1403: Establishes the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency to administer all future reparations, laying the foundation for a comprehensive reparations program.

SB 1403 passed on the Senate floor, and now heads to the Assembly!

#CALeg #CRTF #AB3121 #KamilahMoore
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3/ 📜 SB 1050: Provides restitution for Californians who lost homes or had their land taken without fair compensation due to racially-motivated use of eminent domain.

SB 1050 passed on the Senate floor, and now heads to the Assembly!

#CRTF #AB3121 #ReparationsNow
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Sep 13, 2023
1/📊 In the latest August 2023 Berkeley IGS Poll, California voters were asked about their support for cash payments to descendants of slaves in California:

52% of “strong Democrats” were in favor, while 33% opposed.

92% of “strong Republicans” opposed, while 6% were in favor. Image
2/ A substantial 62% of respondents said they had heard about the California Reparations Task Force (CRTF), with 73% of Black respondents being aware of it. Notably, Republicans, property owners, higher education, & higher income groups were more likely to have heard about CRTF. Image
3/ Respondents were also asked about the state’s efforts to ensure fair chances for Black residents. Across counties, most believe the state is doing *too little* for Black residents, including white respondents.

📊 Tabulations: #CALeg #ReparationsNow escholarship.org/content/qt6385…
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Read 10 tweets
Jan 26, 2023
🧵The California Reparations Task Force meets this Friday and Saturday in San Diego!

Agenda: oag.ca.gov/system/files/m…

Join virtually on oag.ca.gov/ab3121 or via @EtmMedia’s Youtube for a live chat option!

Public comment (9:10am-10:10am):
•844-291-5495
•Code: 3968101
Missed the December 2022 hearing in Oakland? Review the meeting minutes here: oag.ca.gov/system/files/m…

#AB3121 #CRTF #ReparationsNow #Reparations
What’s on the agenda for Jan 2023? Well, for one: Tax Law Considerations!

The task force has invited three tax law experts to provide expert testimony on the intersection between reparations and tax.

Timely considering this latest article from @business: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Read 8 tweets
Jan 10, 2023
My 3x great grand parents, Victor Theophile Haydel (1835-1924) and Marie Celeste Becnel (1840-1885) were both born enslaved on the @WhitPlantation. The couple who would become the ancestors of the African American Haydel family. #DESCENDANTChallenge @Participant @HGMedia
“Victor was the son of an enslaved woman (Anna), who was herself a mulatto. Victor was fathered by Antoine Haydel, the brother of Marie Azelie Haydel. Celeste was a daughter of Francoise, the enslaved cook of Marie, and was fathered by Florestan Becnel, Marie’s brother-in-law.”
“It is known that each of these men was married, and that refusing to engage in sexual relations with a white man was not an option available to either of these women.”

#DESCENDANTChallenge

Honored to descend from such survivors: whitneyplantation.org/history/the-bi…
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Jan 10, 2023
The Rise of the Lost Cause Myth (across U.S. + California):

“After Reconstruction ended, white southerners created the myth of the Confederate “Lost Cause” in order to downplay the horrors of enslavement and terrorize African Americans.”

#Reparations #ReparationsNow

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“Southerners who opposed Black civil rights falsely argued that the Civil War had little to do with enslavement.

The Lost Cause myth claims that the Confederacy had fought a heroic war to save the southern way of life from being destroyed by the North.”

#ReparationsNow
“This untruthful history also claims that the Confederacy lost the Civil War only because the more populated, industrialized North overpowered white southerners, not because enslavement or the Confederate cause was wrong.”

#Reparations #ReparationsNow
Read 18 tweets
Jan 9, 2023
🧵 “Rose Cannon’s (@Reparationist_1) family moved to Evanston in 1919, when her father and his family arrived from Tennessee and settled in the 5th Ward.” #reparations #ReparationsNow

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“As her family prospered, in the early 1960s, when Cannon was in high school, they moved into their dream home, a brand new house in the historically White 2nd Ward neighborhood.” #reparations #ReparationsNow

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“They were unable to secure a conventional mortgage and resorted to a contract for deed, she said, referring to a predatory financial agreement commonly required for Black people in the 1960s.”

3/

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