The African and African Descendants Caucus successfully lobbies for reparations and to have the Maafa (African Holocaust, Holocaust of Enslavement, or Black Holocaust) included in the final declaration document at the 2001 United Nations World Conference against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa.

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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).

August 28, 2018

The Southern Grassroots Economies Project (SGEP) (see timeline entry for 2011) identifies the need for a loan fund dedicated to marginalized Southern communities working on rebuilding their local economies as early as 2012 and begins learning about how to establish such a loan fund over the next few years. The Southern Reparations Loan Fund (SRLF) is incorporated as a legal entity in December 2015.

June 28, 2018

In 1890, Nebraska Democrat Walter Vaughan, son of Alabama slaveholders, convinces his Congressmember, Republican William J. Connell, to introduce the ex-slave pension bill in 1890. Frederick Douglass was one of few supporters, and it was defeated.