James Forman, director of international affairs for Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), introduces the Black Manifesto at the meeting, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, of the National Black Economic Development Conference (NBEDC). NBEDC endorses the Manifesto.

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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.”

June 29, 2018

In the February 21, 2001 edition, USA Today features Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann and reports on Farmer-Paellmann’s research identifying some 60 companies that profited from slavery and how Farmer-Paellmann has taken findings to some nine of them (banks, insurers, etc.) In the same year, Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann is keynote presenter at the N’COBRA national convention in Baton Rouge.