Hidden Figures Community Day

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  1. 6. Widely known and respected African American civil and criminal trial lawyers. He was chosen by Callie House to use the government for reparations from the cotton tax.
  2. 7. The historic cotton tax lawsuit that is the first documented federal litigation for reparations for slavery.
  3. 9. First to propose the idea of ex-slave pensions. Wanted to indirectly increase the financial resources of whites in South and created a proposal that was pattered after the idea of the popular Union veterans’ pensions of the period.
  4. 10. A schoolteacher, minister, and former agent for Vaughan, he reinforced Callie House’s belief that African Americans could successfully organize a movement for ex-slave pensions and mutual assistance.
  5. 11. A charter incorporator who was elected president of the Ex-Slave Association at the 1898 convention.
  6. 12. One of three agencies that worked to investigate groups in the Ex-Slaves movement and to stifle the movement
  7. 13. She became a national leader of the ex-slave pension movement
  8. 14. A powerful Radical Republican leader who was a staunch advocate for emancipation and championed civil and equal rights for blacks.
  9. 15. To obtain money or property by fraud or deceit
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  1. 1. Denied the claim from Johnson v. McAdoo regarding the cotton tax lawsuit GovernmentalImmunity Sometimes known as sovereign immunity, it provides immunity for subdivisions within the state.
  2. 2. Sum of money that was claimed to be collected as a tax on cotton due to ex-slaves because the cotton was produced by them and their ancestors due to their “involuntary servitude.”
  3. 3. The date in 1897 that the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association chartered; their goal was to petition Congress to grant compensation to ex-slaves and mutual aid
  4. 4. An editor of the Washington Bee, he was an opponent of the ex-slave petition movement but a proponent of Jones. He published favorable stores about the cotton tax suit but not about Callie House and the Association
  5. 5. One of three agencies that worked to investigate groups in the Ex-Slaves movement and to stifle the movement
  6. 8. One of three agencies that worked to investigate groups in the Ex-Slaves movement and to stifle the movement