The U.S. government's first reparations had plan to compensate African-Americans for the legacy of slavery was 40 acres and a mule apiece--that was Gen. William Sherman's promise to former slaves shortly after the Civil War ended in 1865. His order set aside land on the Georgia and South Carolina coasts for the settlement of thousands of newly freed families. But the promise was quickly recanted and the land was taken back,with no other plans for reparations. Since then, the issue has been revisited time and again by leading civil rights activists. In Addition, several corporations that exist today profited from over 300 years of slavery and oppression of African Americans. In the past century alone African Americans have endured severe set backs economic hardships. Please Sign Petition



