POLISCI 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Malik, Civil Liberties, African Americans
26 Dec 2019
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Reparations definition: the making of amends for wrong or injury done or the act of restoration to good condition. Restitution- (financial or symbolic) by fed gov or private industry for wrong committed against a specific group in the near or distant past. 70 billion to isreal and survivors of holocaust. Germany is still paying pension to survivors of concentration camps. Civil liberties act passed as a result of this. It was an official apology to japanese americans. 20000 tax free awarded to survivors of internment. Education fund of 1. 25 million to student descendants. Total cost was 2 billion paid by taxpayers. After lincoln killed next president gave the land back to slave owners and confiscated it from freed slaves to make south happy. Third wave is civil rights movements wanted to work within system didn"t want to upset system and reparations are a fundamental opposition to the system.
