Reparations for slavery: Media
Should reparations be paid to the descendants of slavery?
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Interning Japanese Americans
Listen to Sam Mihara describe how the U.S. government forced Japanese Americans to...
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Reparations for slavery.
Borneti Phillipis from Waukegan, Illinois, joins hundreds of Black demonstrators...
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Draft and Race Riot
Dissatisfaction with the Civil War and the draft and hostility toward African Americans...
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Slavery in Virginia
Enslaved people in Virginia, ca. 1862.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-ds-05506)
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears, oil on canvas by Robert Lindneux, 1942; the Trail of...
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Tuskegee Syphilis Study
A U.S. public health worker drawing blood from a man as part of the Tuskegee syphilis...
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Japanese American Reparations
U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Reparations Bill for Japanese-Americans, on...
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Pres. Barack Obama and Vice Pres. Joe Biden in 2015.
The pair have questioned the logistics of reparations.
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Gov. Wes Moore
The Maryland governor vetoed a 2024 bill to study reparations, favoring “continued...
Photographer: Joseph Andrucyk; Editor: Patrick Siebert/Office of Governor Moore
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