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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On May 21, 1968, a tent city known as Resurrection City” is set up in support of the Poor People’s Campaign (see timeline entry for December 4, 1967), lasting for six weeks.

June 29, 2018

In 1972, Mary Frances Berry publishes an article entitled “Reparations for the Freedman, 1890-1916: Fraudulent Practices or Justice Denied?,” concluding that no evidence was presented that leaders of the ex-slave pension movement had engaged in fraud.

June 29, 2018

The title of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), proposed by the December I2th Movement International Secretariat (IS) in 1993, is expanded to include Xenophobia and Related Intolerance as part of a compromise reached with Western countries.