Civil Rights
Apr. 29, 2002
Linked to Cruel History
Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - At the end of the Civil War, the U.S. government pledged "40 acres and a Mule" in reparation for the inhumane and depraved treatment it visited on African-Americans during slavery and in guarantee of the future economic viability of every freed slave. Despite more than a century's worth of efforts to hold the government to its word, the government never kept its promise.
Forum Column
By Leslie T. Thornton
At the end of the Civil War, the U.S. government pledged "40 acres and a Mule" in reparation for the inhumane and depraved treatment it visited on African-Americans during slavery and in guarantee of the future ...
By Leslie T. Thornton
At the end of the Civil War, the U.S. government pledged "40 acres and a Mule" in reparation for the inhumane and depraved treatment it visited on African-Americans during slavery and in guarantee of the future ...
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