Reparations and Reparatory Justice

Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought Emerita and emeritus professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. Her thirteen books include History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Time.Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua is an associate professor in history and African American studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830–1915. V. P. Franklin is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of history and education at the University of California Riverside. His eleven books include The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.

Introduction
 
A.J. Davis, An Historical Timeline of Reparations Payments Made From 1783 through 2020 by the United States Government, States, Cities, Religious Institutions, Colleges and Universities, and Corporations

Part I - Reparations: Speeches and Documents
 

Ron Daniels, The National/International Summit: Seizing the Moment to Galvanize the U. S. and Global Reparations Movement

 

Jesse Jackson, Sr., Providing a Landmark and Frame of Reference for Reparatory Justice

 

Danny Glover, Reparations: An Issue Whose Time Has Come

 

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Ten Reasons Why the Pesky Issue of Reparations Won't Go Away

 

V. P. Franklin, Reparations to Fund Alternatives to Mass Incarceration of African American Youth

 

Sheila Jackson Lee, H.R. 40: Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans in the United States

 

Kamm Howard for N’COBRA, Reparations Means Full Repair: 400 Years of Terror and Crimes Against Humanity

 

Sir Hilary McDonald Beckles, Pursuing a Reparatory Justice Agenda for Global Africa

 

The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, (N’COBRA), What is Reparations?

 

New Afrikan Peoples Organization/Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, America Owes Us for the Ongoing Destruction of Afrikan Life! Reparations Now!

 

National African American Reparations Commission, Reparations Plan

 

Adom Gretachew for Scholars for Social Justice, Reparations in Higher Education: A Scholars for Social Justice Platform

 
Part II – Reparations -Articles and Essays
 

James B. Stewart, Industrial Slavery and Dietary Deprivation: Expanding the Case for Black Reparations

 

Mary Frances Berry, Taking the United States to Court: Callie House and the 1915 Cotton Tax Reparations Litigation

 

Chuck Collins and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, This Is What Reparations Could Actually Look Like in America

 

Brian Jones, The Socialist Case for Reparations

 

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Reparations: Universalism and the African American Struggle for Autonomy

 

Charles Henry, Family Roots of Reparations in the Era of Trump

 

V. P. Franklin, Reparatory Justice Campaigns in the Twenty-First Century

 
Contributors
 
Acknowledgements
 
Index