The Living Consequences

Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has re-introduced H.R. 40, the “Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act,” for the 111th Congress.

This legislation is enthusiastically supported by several DeWolf family members who appear in Traces of the Trade, and Rep. Conyers prominently mentioned our documentary when he introduced the bill. He is also a long-time supporter of our work, having flown to Park City, Utah last year to appear at the film’s world premiere on Martin Luther King Day at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe has a column today in which he explores the evidence that following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, our nation’s long history of racial segregation did not arise naturally. Instead, racial segregation and the elaborate system of Jim Crow laws throughout the nation had to be painstakingly assembled in the face of considerable public opposition or indifference.

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