


government temporarily implemented a major redistribution of land from former slaveholders to the newly emancipated enslaved. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction (1865-1877) when the U.S. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically.

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for Black Americans at nearly every turn. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture in which the authors advance a general definition of reparations as a program of acknowledgment, redress, and closure.
