With reparations now gaining a sizable headwind of interest from coast to coast, it’s a fitting time to resurrect the memory of Rev. Dickerson and recount his role in the emancipation and compensation for Black Americans.
With reparations now gaining a sizable headwind of interest from coast to coast, and during this week of celebrations around Juneteenth, it’s a fitting time to resurrect the memory of Rev. Dickerson and recount his role in the emancipation and compensation for Black Americans.
In 1890, at the request of Vaughan, an ex-slave pension bill was introduced in Congress. Rather than call it a pension bill, he believed it would go further toward approval if it was “a Southern Tax-relief bill.” Complementing this measure, Vaughan established the Ex-Slave National Pension Club Association and Vaughan’s Justice Party.
Two years prior to its founding, House had openly declared that, “We deserve for the government to pay us as an indemnity for the work we and our fore parents was robbed of from the Declaration of Independence down to the Emancipation” and that “[m]y whole soul and body are for the slave movement and I am willing to sacrifice for it.”
House, Dickerson, and their associates devised an intricate plan for reparations, including a payment scale based upon age of the beneficiaries. Former slaves of 70 years and older at the time of disbursement, they cited, were to receive an initial payment of $500 and $12 monthly for the rest of their lives.
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