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Greenbelt, Md. To Create Reparations Commission After Referendum Vote
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Greenbelt, Md. To Create Reparations Commission After Referendum Vote
Jacob Fenston https://twitter.com/JacobFenston
A worker carrying bricks in Greenbelt, Md., in 1936. Many Black people helped build the New Deal planned community, but were not allowed to live there.
Library of Congress
Residents of the small city of Greenbelt, Md., have voted to create a commission to study options for paying reparations to Black and Native American residents. While there has been some momentum in the reparations movement in Maryland and nationwide recently, this is the most significant step toward reparations in the state.
“Greenbelt is great, and it’s always been great in many ways from day one,” said Mayor Colin Byrd in an interview with DCist. “But to this day, we see some of the vestiges of Greenbelt’s original sin.”
Greenbelt was built in the 1930s as a planned community, during the New Deal. Some of the land on which it was built was previously occupied by Black farmers, and many African Americans helped build the new town. But Black residents were barred from the community until the late 1960s.
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Greenbelt, Md. To Create Reparations Commission After Referendum Vote
Jacob Fenston https://twitter.com/JacobFenston
A worker carrying bricks in Greenbelt, Md., in 1936. Many Black people helped build the New Deal planned community, but were not allowed to live there.
Library of Congress
Residents of the small city of Greenbelt, Md., have voted to create a commission to study options for paying reparations to Black and Native American residents. While there has been some momentum in the reparations movement in Maryland and nationwide recently, this is the most significant step toward reparations in the state.
“Greenbelt is great, and it’s always been great in many ways from day one,” said Mayor Colin Byrd in an interview with DCist. “But to this day, we see some of the vestiges of Greenbelt’s original sin.”
Greenbelt was built in the 1930s as a planned community, during the New Deal. Some of the land on which it was built was previously occupied by Black farmers, and many African Americans helped build the new town. But Black residents were barred from the community until the late 1960s.
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