On May 6, 1969, the National Committee of Black Churchmen (NCBC) issues a statement in support of the Black Manifesto, calling James Forman a modern-day prophet.

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On April 8, 1989, N’COBRA holds its first Washington, D.C. town hall meeting. Senator Bill Owens is a speaker, and Queen Mother Audley Moore, mother of the contemporary reparations movement, attends.

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In 1910, Walter L. Fleming publishes an article entitled “Ex-Slave Pension ‘Frauds” in which he credits Walter Vaughan with having an honest pension lobbying operation, but condemns other groups as engaged in fraud.

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Created in 1966 by the founders of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the Ten-Point Program (also known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Ten-Point Platform and Program) is released on May 15, 1967 in the second issue of the Party’s weekly newspaper The Black Panther.