by A. Fernández Campbell,
A. Simpson, & P. Rebala, MOTHER JONES.
Black Americans have been demanding compensation and restitution for their suffering since the end of the Civil War. 40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an oftenmisunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War.
After President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, his successor, Andrew Johnson, stripped property from formerly enslaved Black residents across the South and returned it to their past enslavers.