Who are?
A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual.
policy
The unequal distribution of assets among residents of the United States.
Wealth Gap
A great difference
disparity
Anywhere affordable housing becomes extremely scarce.
Housing Crisis
A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939.
The New Deal
The abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.
Broadly understood as compensation given for abuse or injury. The colloquial meaning of reparations has changed substantially over the last century.
What is Reparations
The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.
American Dream
Systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
Segregation
This Civil War military order confiscated as Federal property a strip of coastal land extending about 30 miles inland from the Atlantic and stretching from Charleston, South Carolina 245 miles south to Jacksonville, Florida.
What is Field Order 15
In legal usage, a blood relative in the direct line of descent—the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person
Who are Descendants
Part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William T. Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres.
40 ACRES AND A MULE
The large set of interrelated production and consumption activities that aid in determining how scarce resources are allocated.
What is economy
An important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.
What is Freedmen's Bureau
An agreement between you and a lender that allows you to borrow money to purchase or refinance a home and gives the lender the right to take your property if you fail to repay the money you've borrowed.
What is mortgage
The covert structural and systemic racism which predetermines the socioeconomic status of Black people in this country and is held in place by anti-Black policies, institutions, and ideologies.
anti black policies
A federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of African-American slaves. It is also often observed for celebrating African-American culture. Originating in Galveston, Texas, it has been celebrated annually on June 19 in various parts of the United States since 1865.
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Jim Crow
The preparation and enactment of laws by a legislative body through its lawmaking process
Legislation
Someone who creates ideas and plans, especially those carried out by a business or government.
policymakers
The process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses. It is a common and controversial topic in urban politics and planning.
Gentrification
The state and the condition of being a slave, who is someone forbidden to quit their service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as their property.
Slavery
The law of gains-based recovery, in which a court orders the defendant to give up his gains to the claimant.
restitutions
The primary form of punishment and rehabilitation for the commission of felony and other offenses. The United States has the largest prison population in the world and the highest per-capita incarceration rate.
What is incarceration?
Also known as systemic racism, a form of racism that is embedded in the laws and regulations of a society or an organization. It manifests as discrimination in areas such as criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, education, and political representation.
structural racisim