| 2026-07-19 |
California Enacts SB 518, "Descendants of Enslaved Persons: Reparations"
|
CA |
+1 |
1.00 |
+1.00 |
| 2026-07-18 |
Massachusetts Bill to Establish Agency of Freedmen Affairs Advances to House Ways and Means
|
MA |
+1 |
0.25 |
+0.25 |
| 2026-07-01 |
California Assembly Bill AB2599 Would Add Slavery-Related Corporate Disclosure Requirements to Civil and Public Contract Code
|
Sacramento, CA |
+0 |
0.50 |
+0.00 |
| 2026-06-24 |
California AB 2186 Would Exclude Reparations Payments from State Income Tax; Advances Through Senate Committee
|
Sacramento, CA |
+1 |
1.00 |
+1.00 |
| 2026-06-18 |
Michigan Bill Proposes Office of American Freedmen Affairs
|
Lansing, MI |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-06-18 |
Michigan bill would create 'American Freedmen' reparations commission
|
Lansing, MI |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-06-15 |
New Jersey Assembly Bill Would Establish 'Truth, Reconciliation, and Repair Act'
|
Trenton, NJ |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-06-15 |
New Jersey Senate Bill Would Establish "Truth, Reconciliation, and Repair Act"
|
Trenton, NJ |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-06-01 |
Senate Bill Would Establish Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park
|
Federal |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-05-27 |
New York Budget Bill Extends Community Commission on Reparations Remedies' Reporting Deadline and Member Terms
|
Albany, NY |
+1 |
1.00 |
+1.00 |
| 2026-05-05 |
Illinois Senate Resolution Urges Congress to Apologize and Provide Restitution for Slavery Legacies
|
Springfield, IL |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-04-20 |
Vermont enacts bill on recommendations of Post-Adjudication Reparative Program Working Group
|
Montpelier, VT |
+0 |
1.00 |
+0.00 |
| 2026-04-17 |
Nebraska Bill to Create Redlining Restitution Task Force Indefinitely Postponed
|
Lincoln, NE |
+1 |
1.00 |
+1.00 |
| 2026-04-01 |
Massachusetts Senate Bill to Create Reparations Study Commission Advances Out of Committee
|
Boston, MA |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-03-27 |
Illinois "Enslavement Redress Act" Would Require State Contractors to Disclose Slaveholding Ties and Fund a Redress Fund — Bill Stalled in Rules Committee
|
IL |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-03-26 |
Massachusetts Bill to Establish Reparations Study Commission Redirected to Study Order
|
Boston, MA |
+1 |
0.25 |
+0.25 |
| 2026-03-16 |
Maryland Bill to Revise Reparations Commission Withdrawn by Sponsor
|
Annapolis, MD |
+0 |
1.00 |
+0.00 |
| 2026-03-12 |
House Bill Introduced to Create Commission Studying Land Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved People Promised Land
|
Federal |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-03-11 |
Maryland HB1271 — Reparations Board, Reparations Fund, and Endowment Excise Tax Bill Receives Committee Hearing
|
Annapolis, MD |
+2 |
0.10 |
+0.20 |
| 2026-03-11 |
Maryland House Resolution Would Apologize for State's Role in Racial Terror Lynchings, Hearing Scheduled
|
Annapolis, MD |
+1 |
1.00 |
+1.00 |
| 2026-02-26 |
House Resolution Introduced to Recognize Clotilda's History and Condemn U.S. Role in Atlantic Slave Trade
|
Federal |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-02-21 |
California AB 2723: Bill to Create American Freedmen Affairs Division and Resident Registry
|
Sacramento, CA |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-02-16 |
New Mexico Senate Memorial Addresses Historical Forced Sterilization Policy
|
NM |
+0 |
1.00 |
+0.00 |
| 2026-02-16 |
Maryland Senate Resolution SJ3 Would Apologize for State's Role in Racial Terror Lynchings
|
Annapolis, MD |
+0 |
0.10 |
+0.00 |
| 2026-02-06 |
Virginia Bill to Create Commission on Black Land Loss Stalled in Committee
|
Richmond, VA |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-01-13 |
New Jersey Assembly Bill Introduced to Establish State Reparations Task Force
|
Trenton, NJ |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-01-13 |
New Jersey Senate Bill Would Establish State Reparations Task Force
|
Trenton, NJ |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-01-07 |
New York bill would require disclosure of slavery-era insurance policies and state contractors' historical ties to slavery
|
Albany, NY |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2026-01-07 |
New York Assembly Bill A05603 Would Create State Freedmen Task Force and Bureau on Reparations
|
Albany, NY |
+2 |
0.10 |
+0.20 |
| 2026-01-07 |
New York Assembly Bill Would Require Disclosure of Slavery-Era Insurance Policies and State Contractor Ties to Slavery
|
Albany, NY |
+1 |
1.00 |
+1.00 |
| 2026-01-07 |
New York Assembly Bill Would Establish State "Freedmen's Bureau" and Appropriate Funds — Still in Committee
|
Albany, NY |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-10-13 |
California Governor Vetoes Bill Creating Postsecondary Admissions Preference for Descendants of Slavery (AB7)
|
Sacramento, CA |
-2 |
1.00 |
-2.00 |
| 2025-10-13 |
California Enacts SB 437, Creating Genealogy/Descendancy-Based Claim Eligibility Process for California State University
|
Sacramento, CA |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 2025-10-13 |
California Bill to Ease Professional Licensing for Descendants of Slaves Vetoed by Governor
|
Sacramento, CA |
+1 |
1.00 |
+1.00 |
| 2025-10-13 |
California bill to add slavery descendants to Dream For All housing assistance program vetoed by Governor
|
Sacramento, CA |
-2 |
1.00 |
-2.00 |
| 2025-08-08 |
Federal bill would require corporate racial equity audits and 'atonement' for descendants of enslaved persons
|
Federal |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-08-05 |
House bill introduced to posthumously award Congressional Gold Medal to enslaved Africans and their descendants (1619–1865)
|
Federal |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-06-20 |
Texas Enacts Historic Texas Freedmen's Cemetery Designation Program (SB217)
|
Austin, TX |
+1 |
1.00 |
+1.00 |
| 2025-06-12 |
Senate Resolution Urges Creation of U.S. Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
|
Federal |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-06-12 |
House Resolution Urges Creation of Federal Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
|
Federal |
+0 |
0.10 |
+0.00 |
| 2025-05-15 |
House Resolution Recognizes Moral and Legal Obligation for Reparations for Enslavement, Referred to Judiciary Committee
|
Federal |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-04-30 |
Ohio House Resolution Introduced to Condemn and Apologize for Displacement of Randolph Freedpeople
|
OH |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-04-07 |
Texas Bill Would Create State Program to Designate Historic Freedmen's Cemeteries
|
Austin, TX |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-04-02 |
Georgia Senate Adopts Resolution Creating Rosenwald Schools Study Committee
|
Atlanta, GA |
+0 |
1.00 |
+0.00 |
| 2025-04-01 |
Vermont Bill Would Create Task Force to Study and Develop Slavery Reparations Proposals
|
Montpelier, VT |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-04-01 |
Texas House Resolution Honors United Warrior Band of the Seminole Nation/John Horse Band
under review |
Austin, TX |
+0 |
1.00 |
+0.00 |
| 2025-03-14 |
Bill Introduced to Bar Federal Bailouts for State/Local Reparations Laws
|
Federal |
-2 |
0.10 |
-0.20 |
| 2025-03-10 |
Minnesota bill would create 'Migration Act' account to study and fund reparation grants
|
St. Paul, MN |
+0 |
0.10 |
+0.00 |
| 2025-03-10 |
Minnesota Senate Bill Proposes Study and Reparation Grants for American Descendants of Chattel Slavery Residing in Minnesota
|
St. Paul, MN |
+2 |
0.10 |
+0.20 |
| 2025-02-27 |
House bill introduced to honor, preserve, and invest in historic Freedmen's Settlements
|
Federal |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-02-07 |
Illinois SB2212 'Enslavement Redress Act' Would Require State Contractors to Disclose Slavery Ties and Fund Redress Program
|
Springfield, IL |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-02-04 |
Oklahoma SB74: Appropriation Bill for Tulsa Race Massacre Compensation Program Introduced
|
Oklahoma City, OK |
+2 |
0.10 |
+0.20 |
| 2025-02-04 |
Oklahoma HB1118 Would Create 'Freedmen of Oklahoma Commission' and Address Tribal Cooperative Agreements, Forfeiture, and Funds
|
Oklahoma City, OK |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-01-09 |
Senate Bill Would Create Federal Commission to Study Reparations Proposals for African Americans
|
Federal |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2025-01-03 |
H.R. 40 Reparations Study Commission Bill Reintroduced in House, Referred to Judiciary Committee
|
Federal |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 2024-06-12 |
Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses the last Tulsa Massacre survivors' reparations suit
|
Tulsa, OK |
-1 |
1.00 |
-1.00 |
| 2021-03-22 |
Evanston, Illinois launches the nation's first publicly funded reparations program
|
Evanston, IL |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 2020-09-30 |
California becomes the first state to create a reparations task force (AB 3121)
|
Sacramento, CA |
+1 |
1.00 |
+1.00 |
| 2013-06-25 |
Shelby County v. Holder guts the Voting Rights Act's preclearance shield
|
Federal |
-2 |
1.00 |
-2.00 |
| 2010-08-03 |
Fair Sentencing Act cuts the crack-powder disparity from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1
|
Federal |
+1 |
1.00 |
+1.00 |
| 1999-04-14 |
Pigford v. Glickman: Black farmers win a landmark USDA discrimination settlement
|
Federal |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 1989-11-20 |
The first federal reparations-study bill (later renumbered H.R. 40) is introduced
|
Federal |
+1 |
0.10 |
+0.10 |
| 1986-10-27 |
Anti-Drug Abuse Act writes the 100-to-1 crack sentencing disparity into law
|
Federal |
-1 |
1.00 |
-1.00 |
| 1974-07-25 |
Milliken v. Bradley walls the suburbs off from school desegregation
|
Federal |
-1 |
1.00 |
-1.00 |
| 1968-04-11 |
Fair Housing Act bans housing discrimination — the counter to redlining
|
Federal |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 1965-08-06 |
Voting Rights Act of 1965 restores federal enforcement of the franchise
|
Federal |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 1964-07-02 |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws segregation and employment discrimination
|
Federal |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 1954-05-17 |
Brown v. Board of Education overturns 'separate but equal'
|
Federal |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 1944-06-22 |
The GI Bill's benefits are systematically denied to Black veterans
|
Federal |
-1 |
1.00 |
-1.00 |
| 1934-06-27 |
The National Housing Act creates the FHA, which institutionalizes redlining
|
Federal |
-2 |
1.00 |
-2.00 |
| 1921-06-01 |
The Tulsa Race Massacre destroys the Greenwood district ('Black Wall Street')
|
Tulsa, OK |
-2 |
1.00 |
-2.00 |
| 1896-05-18 |
Plessy v. Ferguson enshrines 'separate but equal'
|
Federal |
-2 |
1.00 |
-2.00 |
| 1883-10-15 |
Supreme Court strikes down the Civil Rights Act of 1875 (Civil Rights Cases)
|
Federal |
-2 |
1.00 |
-2.00 |
| 1877-04-24 |
The Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction and withdraws federal protection
|
Federal |
-2 |
1.00 |
-2.00 |
| 1874-06-29 |
The Freedman's Savings Bank collapses, wiping out the savings of 61,000 depositors
|
Federal |
-2 |
1.00 |
-2.00 |
| 1870-02-03 |
Fifteenth Amendment ratified, prohibiting denial of the vote by race
|
Federal |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 1868-07-09 |
Fourteenth Amendment ratified, granting citizenship and equal protection
|
Federal |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 1866-04-09 |
Civil Rights Act of 1866 guarantees freedmen basic economic rights
|
Federal |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 1865-12-06 |
Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery
|
Federal |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 1865-10-28 |
President Andrew Johnson rescinds Field Orders No. 15, returning land to former enslavers
|
Federal |
-2 |
1.00 |
-2.00 |
| 1865-03-03 |
Congress establishes the Freedmen's Bureau
|
Federal |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |
| 1865-01-16 |
Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15 set aside coastal land for freedmen
|
Federal |
+2 |
1.00 |
+2.00 |