The Reparations movement is gaining momentum.
But African-Americans here said the agreement would inspire pride among blacks and lend momentum to efforts for reparations in the form of scholarship funds and individual compensation for the descendants of slaves.
As Europe looks on, a government effort to make reparations is under way.
Imari Obadele, a teacher and writer whose commitment to black empowerment fired a militant, sometimes violent effort to win reparations for descendants of slaves and to carve out, however quixotically, an African-American republic in the Deep South, died on Jan . 18in Atlanta.
"It's the difference between 40 acres and a mule and 40 acres and a Bentley," Mr. Simmons said, speaking of efforts to modernize and market the campaign for reparations for blacks.
U.S. lawyer and businessman best known for his efforts to solve reparations issues after World War I. Educated at St .Lawrence University and Boston University Law School, Young practiced law in Boston until 1912 and then became general counsel for the General Electric Company, serving also as chairman of the board of directors (1922 39).
Maduro was followed by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St . Vincentand the Grenadines, who urged the audience to support Caribbean countries' efforts to win reparations for colonization and slavery.
Efforts to obtain reparations for survivors of the violence have been unsuccessful but the city and state re-examined the events in the early 21st century, acknowledging the terrible actions that had taken place.
Ford, a leading target of lawsuits because of its big German subsidiary and its founder's early sympathy for Hitler, has already pledged money to the German reparation fund and has led the effort to start an American shadow fund, people involved in the effort said.
Well, in a sense it did: on Oct. 3, Germany finally paid off the interest on bonds that had been taken out by the shaky Weimar government in an effort to pay the war reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.
