![]() Around 1915, the process grew into the great migration, one of the greatest internal population movements in modern American history. ![]() From the turn of the 20th century, Black families began arriving in Evanston in large numbers. By November 2019, Robin Rue Simmons had successfully inaugurated the US’s – and the world’s – first ever government-funded slavery reparations programme.Įvanston is a majority-white university town about 13 miles north of Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan. The email, five paragraphs and 350 words long, was a spark. ![]() Simmons went on to invite the equity commission to join her in exploring “best actions” and pursuing “the light at the end of the tunnel”. ![]() ![]() I’d like to pursue policy and actions as radical as the radical policies that got us to this point. You have the most difficult work of all the commissions because the goal seems impossible … I realize that no 1 policy or proclamation can repair the damage done to Black families in this 400th year of African American resilience. ![]()
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