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

[Rich Lowenthal]

James Forman interrupted the service at Riverside Church on Sunday, May 
4, 1969 to demand $500 million in reparations from American churches and 
synagogues in recompense for past injustices. The manifesto he read 
refers to the payment as "a beginning of the reparations due us as 
people who have been exploited and degraded, brutalized, killed and 
persecuted." I don't know if he used the phrase "Black reparations" or 
not in the manifesto (or if the article cited further quotes the 
manifesto.)

Rich Lowenthal


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Date 7/3/2025 06:57:41
Subject "Black Reparations" Not in OED

>Black reparations (not in OED)
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>1969 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 2 May 8/1 (Neewspapers.com)
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>(headline)  Black Reparations Demands on Churches Seen Uncertain.
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>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).
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>Fred Shapiro
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