What Should Reparations Look Like at the University of Chicago?
Channel: The Reparations at UChicago Working Group- RAUC
Date: 2020-08-16

This teach-in was held at 6pm on Wed. September 27th, 2017 at the Cox Lounge in Stuart Hall at the University of Chicago. It was the first time that names of the enslaved peoples that made the University of Chicago possible were publicly honored on campus.  It was part of a 'Week of Action' for Racial Justice at UChicago organized by:

Reparations at UChicago Working Group
UChicago for a Community Benefits Agreement
UChicago United
UChicago Student Action
UChicago American Association of University Professors
UChicago International Socialist Organization
Students Working against Prisons
Graduate Students United
Faculty Forward

Other events that week included an activist fair and a rally/march. Coverage of the Week of Action can be found here

https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2017/10/3/student-activists-speak-racial-justice-rally/


For more information on the RAUC follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TheRAUC

and read their article detailing the University of Chicago's ties to slavery here: 

https://www.aaihs.org/a-case-for-reparations-at-the-university-of-chicago/

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