In 1797, the US Congress rejects the North Carolina Slave Petition, the first recorded petition for an end to slavery by freed Blacks.

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June 28, 2018

Through the efforts of the Association, over 600,000 previously enslaved Africans join the movement and petition the US Congress “to pension every negro who was emancipated. And if the negro is dead give it to his child, if his child is dead give it to his grand child.” (Notice for convention of Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association held in Columbia, Tennessee, March 24-27, 1899)

June 29, 2018

In March 2014, at a two-day meeting in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) approves a 10-point plan for reparations.

March 23, 2019

The state of North Carolina set aside $10 million for reparations payments to living survivors of the state’s eugenics program, which forcibly sterilized approximately 7,600 people (“North Carolina Set To Compensate Forced Sterilization Victims” by Scott Neuman, NPR, July 25, 2013; “Families of NC Eugenics Victims No Longer Alive Still Have Shot at Compensation” by Anne Blythe, News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), March 17, 2017).