Assignment: The Case for Reparations

As a group, identify, discuss, and use at least nine facts, i.e., historical events, social movements, or any other evidence from the articles, video and audio clips, that you can include to support your argument. Upload your group responses into the discussion board and respond to at least one classmate.

What is a kleptocracy? What evidence exists to support the assertion of its existence in America?

How would you argue that the disparities in wealth, health, and education experienced among African Americans today directly reflect the systemic racism built into the institutions of America in the past? How would reparations repair the damage done to African Americans?
Read the following articles uploaded on the pages tab in Canvas:

"UN Group Suggests US Consider Reparations for Slavery," by Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press

"We Absolutely Could Give Reparations to Black People. Here's How," by Julia Craven

Terms/People/Movements/ Events/Responses to Racial Oppression and Kleptocracy

White Power Structure                                         WEB DuBois
Booker T Washington                                          The Purpose of Education
Gospel of Wealth                                                 Pan-Africanism    
Gradualism                                                          Niagara Movement
Atlanta Compromise                                             Talented Tenth
Tuskegee Institute                                               NAACP
Tuskegee Experiment - Syphilis Study                    Crisis Magazine
Pap Singleton                                                       American Negro Academy
Kansas Exodusters                                               Sharecropping
Back to Africa Liberia Movement                              Tenant Farming
Great Migration                                                     Vagrancy Laws
Henrietta Lacks - HeLa cells                                    Julius Rosenwald (Rosenwald Fund)
Grave digging                                                       Collapsed Southern Economy
John Hopkins University                                         White Supremacy                    
Scientific Racism                                                    KKK
Columbia Exposition                                              William Harmon (Harmon Foundation)
Plessy vs Ferguson - Separate but Equal                 Contract Buyer's League
Lynching                                                              National Negro Business League
Voting                                                                 Philip Payton
Migration                                                             Cultural Appropriation
Education - black schools vs white schools              Blackface Minstrelsy
Edward Wilmot Blyden (Father of Afrocentrism)
Developing Black Leaders
Dr. Carter Woodson (Father of Black History)
Alexander Crummell
Miseducation of the Negro
Marcus Garvey
UNIA
Vindicationism
Civilizationism
Washington's Propaganda
Anti-Lynching Crusade
Ida B Wells
Convict Leasing
Debt-Peonage
Prison-Industrial Complex
Prison Reform vs Abolition

Race Riots - Chicago 1919 (Red Summer), Tulsa 1921 (Destruction of Black Wall Street)

Jesse Washington Lynching 1916 (Waco Horror)

Alain Locke

The New Negro

The Harlem Renaissance.