U.S. Congress - H.R.40 Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
H.R.40 - Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 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. view all titles (2)
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- Short: Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act as introduced.
- Official: To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 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. as introduced.
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1/4/2005--Introduced.Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act - Establishes the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans to examine: (1) the institution of slavery which existed within the United States and the colonies that became the UnitedOfficial Summary
1/4/2005--Introduced.
Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act - Establishes the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans to examine:
(1) the institution of slavery which existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States from 1619 through 1865;
(2) the extent to which the Federal and State governments supported the institution of slavery in constitutional and statutory provisions;
(3) Federal and State laws that discriminated against freed African slaves and their descendants; and
(4) the lingering negative effects of the institution of slavery on living African-Americans and on society in the United States.
Instructs the Commission to address the following issues when making its recommendations to Congress:
(1) whether the Federal government should offer a formal apology for the perpetration of gross human rights violations on African slaves and their descendants;
(2) whether African-Americans still suffer from the lingering effects of slavery; and
(3) whether any form of compensation to the descendants of African slaves is warranted.
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