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In the recently published book, "Eight Women Leaders of the Reparations Movement U. S. A.," by Linda Allen Eustace and Dr. Imari Obadele, "The movement's successful organizing, coupled with the ubiquitous white supremacist values of whites generally and especially United States officials, which disposed them in those days, as today, to attempt to defeat any significant self help efforts among Black people resulted in a ten year postal investigation."
Although this phase of the Reparations Movement was not successful, the spirit and organizing work carried on through the Garvey Movement and again resurfaced through the leadership of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X in the 1960s making the reparations demand through Muhammad Speaks. The Nation of Islam remains an advocate of the reparations demand. The Republic of New Africa made a reparations demand in 1968, demanding payment of $400 billion in slavery damages.See the full content of this document
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Overview of Reparations Movement History
In my travels around the country, the issue of reparations appears to have penetrated the spirit and interest of African people in America in all walks...
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