In 2005, the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland convenes a reparations task force, which hosts a diocese-wide conversation with Dr. Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D, professor and director of the Institute of Urban Research at Morgan State University.

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In 1968, the Republic of New Africa makes a reparations demand, demanding payment of $400 billion in damages for slavery. (Lisa N. Nealy & Pfizer Shellow, Our Land is a’comin and Our Mule is on de Way, Research paper submitted to the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, Wash., D.C., 2002)

March 23, 2019

$12.3 million: Seminoles of Florida (see Racial Justice in America: A Reference Handbook by David B. Mustard, 2002, ABC-CLIO, p. 81).

June 29, 2018

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.