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N'COBRA Movement and HR 40
H.R. 40 was introduced on January 6, 1999 by
Rep. John Jr. Conyers (D-Mich.). The bill is "to acknowledge
the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity
of slavery in the United States and the thirteen American
colonies between 1619 and 1865, and to establish a commission
to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently
de
jure and
de facto racial and economic
discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of
these forces on living African-Americans, to make
recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and
for other purposes."
Project documentation includes a copy of a October
29, 1999 letter to Rep. John Conyers from Randall Robinson,
inviting Conyers to attend a TransAfrica Forum on January 11, 2000,
to discuss the "Case for Black Reparations" due to slavery in the
United States; a cassette tape of Conyers leading a session on
reparations; a video of a panel of reparation advocates speaking on
legal strategies for H.R. 40 and African American reparations; the
Encobra magazine (summer 1999), the N'COBRA November 1999
newsletter, "Reparations, Now"; and various newspaper and journal
articles, papers, and letters, regarding the reparations
issue.
Originally submitted by: John Conyers, Jr., Representative (14th District).
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