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Reparations effort emerges from civil rights lawyers
A high profile group led by Harvard professor Charles Ogletree and attorney Johnnie Cochran plans a major legal push for reparations to African Americans descended from slaves. The effort seeks more than money, aiming to expose slavery’s legacy and obtain broad remedies from public and private defendants.
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Associated Press
Harvard Law
Charles Ogletree
Ogletree
America
Johnnie Cochran
Washington, D.C