In 1955, Queen Mother Audley Moore founds the Reparations Committee of Descendants of United States Slaves.

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Reference: Harper’s Magazine, November 2000, Does America Owe a Debt to the Descendants of its Slaves?,in Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations(ed. Raymond A. Winbush, PhD 2003) at p. 103

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In 1955, Queen Mother Audley Moore founds the Reparations Committee of Descendants of United States Slaves.

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