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 January 2017, a $4 million reparations, or equity, package is presented to Charlottesville City Council and passes unanimously.

June 28, 2018

On July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the US Constitution is adopted, nullifying the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) with this language: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”