Remake of 40 Acres and a Mule by Evan Hunt(ST) https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde A story of systemic racism in America. en-us 2021-09-24 12:58:27 UTC 2021-09-24 13:03:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4b0.png General Sherman hunte1138 https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580418 In the final month of the Civil War, General Sherman had several freed slaves marching with his army. He met with a delegation of Black church leaders to determine the best way to help them be successful.]]> 2021-09-24 12:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580418 Land hunte1138 https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580419 When meeting with the church leaders, Garrison Frazier, a Baptist minister and the group’s spokesman made clear the demands of the freedmen and women: 

“The way we can best take care of ourselves is to have land.” 

]]> 2021-09-24 12:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580419 "40 Acres & a Mule" hunte1138 https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580420
Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15. The order redistributed 400,000 abandoned acres of land on the Georgia coast, in 40-acre plots, to newly freed Black families. Later Sherman agreed to lend Black settlers army mules to work the land. This gave birth to the famous phrase “40 acres and a mule,”

]]> 2021-09-24 12:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580420 Yep... that happened. hunte1138 https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580421 Although the freedmen & women had been granted land on which they could make a living, within just one year, President Andrew Johnson restored the land given through Special Order 15 to its former Confederate owners & former slaveholders. ]]> 2021-09-24 12:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580421 America's Priorities hunte1138 https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580422 The land granted to freedmen was taken back and they were given no reparations for the millions of dollars generated during the hundreds of years of slavery in the US. Alternatively, former slaveowners were compensated $300 per "lost slave" based on an 1862 bill signed by Lincoln. ]]> 2021-09-24 12:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580422 White Collar Theft hunte1138 https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580424 By 1982, Black owned farmland decreased from 15 million acres to 3.5 millions acres due to discriminatory lending policies that started during the Great Depression and still continue today.]]> 2021-09-24 12:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580424 MLK's Estimate hunte1138 https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580426 In the 1960s, MLK estimated that if 40 Acres and a Mule were to be "paid back" today, it would be worth $800 billion in lost wages and profits. That is comparable to over $6.4 trillion today.]]> 2021-09-24 12:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580426 The First Calls for Reparations hunte1138 https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580427 One bill introduced in the Senate in 1894 would have granted direct payments of up to $500 to all ex-slaves plus monthly pensions ranging from $4 to $15. That, and other similar bills, never made it past congressional committees. The pension movement itself faded with the onset of World War I.]]> 2021-09-24 12:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580427 The Fight Continues hunte1138 https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580428 Rep. John Conyers fought for reparations until his death. He presented a bill every year from 1989 until 2017 to review reparations for Black people.

In 2019, the year Conyers passed away, legislators picked up where he left off. Jackson Lee reintroduced the bill that year, adding recommendations that “apology and compensation” would go along with the study.

]]> 2021-09-24 12:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580428 Wake up, America hunte1138 https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580429 In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article, “The Case for Reparations,” in The Atlantic, helped galvanize a national reawakening to the necessity of reparations and continued effects of slavery. He talked to several people who were met at the demarcation line between wealth and poverty with redlining, low-paying jobs, subpar education and predatory home loans.]]> 2021-09-24 12:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hunte1138/lw5qufxqro4i1cde/wish/1765580429