[Ads-l] "Black Reparations" Not in OED

[Shapiro, Fred]

Black reparations (not in OED)

1969 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 2 May 8/1 (Neewspapers.com)

(headline)  Black Reparations Demands on Churches Seen Uncertain.

NOTE:  It appears from this article that James Forman was the coiner of this term.  Forman, whose son is a professor at my law school and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was a very important Black civil rights leader who married the daughter of Jessica Mitford, one of the legandary Mitford sisters (probably the most interesting British family of the 20th century).

Fred Shapiro

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