On Sunday May 12, 1968, Mothers’ Day, demonstrators led by Coretta Scott King begin a two-week protest in support of the Poor People’s Campaign (see timeline entry for December 4, 1967) in Washington, D.C., demanding an Economic Bill of Rights.

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In spring of 1987, David Addams, Associate Director of National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) asks Adjoa A. Aiyetoro (later chair of the Legal Strategies Commission and founding member of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA)) to organize a panel on reparations for the September 1987 conference at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

June 29, 2018

On December 4, 1995, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decides Cato v. United States, 70 F.3d 1103 (9th Cir. 1995), rejecting reparations damages claim against the US on ground that US has not waived its sovereign immunity with respect to any of plaintiff’s theories of relief.

June 29, 2018

In April 1989, the African-American Summit includes support for reparations in its concluding document: “We call for reparations. If they are good enough for the Japanese-Americans and Native Americans, they are good for those of us who worked for hundreds of years unpaid, and who now need that capital for our own development in this country?” (Salim Muwakkil, Black America: Blacks call for reparations to break the shackles of the past, In These Times (Oct. 11-17, 1989), p. 6)