The Case for Reparations

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As a group, identify, discuss, and use at least nine facts, i.e., historical events, social movements, or any other evidence from the articles, video and audio clips, that you can include to support your argument. Upload your group responses into the discussion board and respond to at least one classmate.

What is a kleptocracy? What evidence exists to support the assertion of its existence in America?

How would you argue that the disparities in wealth, health, and education experienced among African Americans today directly reflect the systemic racism built into the institutions of America in the past? How would reparations repair the damage done to African Americans?

Read the following articles uploaded on the pages tab in Canvas:

“UN Group Suggests US Consider Reparations for Slavery,” by Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press

“We Absolutely Could Give Reparations to Black People. Here’s How,” by Julia Craven

Terms/People/Movements/ Events/Responses to Racial Oppression and Kleptocracy

White Power Structure WEB DuBois

Booker T Washington The Purpose of Education

Gospel of Wealth Pan-Africanism

Gradualism Niagara Movement

Atlanta Compromise Talented Tenth

Tuskegee Institute NAACP

Tuskegee Experiment – Syphilis Study Crisis Magazine

Pap Singleton American Negro Academy

Kansas Exodusters Sharecropping

Back to Africa Liberia Movement Tenant Farming

Great Migration Vagrancy Laws

Henrietta Lacks – HeLa cells Julius Rosenwald (Rosenwald Fund)

Grave digging Collapsed Southern Economy

John Hopkins University White Supremacy

Scientific Racism KKK

Columbia Exposition William Harmon (Harmon Foundation)

Plessy vs Ferguson – Separate but Equal Contract Buyer’s League

Lynching National Negro Business League

Voting Philip Payton

Migration Cultural Appropriation

Education – black schools vs white schools Blackface Minstrelsy

Edward Wilmot Blyden (Father of Afrocentrism)

Developing Black Leaders

Dr. Carter Woodson (Father of Black History)

Alexander Crummell

Miseducation of the Negro

Marcus Garvey

UNIA

Vindicationism

Civilizationism

Washington’s Propaganda

Anti-Lynching Crusade

Ida B Wells

Convict Leasing

Debt-Peonage

Prison-Industrial Complex

Prison Reform vs Abolition

Race Riots – Chicago 1919 (Red Summer), Tulsa 1921 (Destruction of Black Wall Street)

Jesse Washington Lynching 1916 (Waco Horror)

Alain Locke

The New Negro

The Harlem Renaissance