programs have been used strategically in the united states and throughout the world to provide for greaves injustices -- grievous injustices. neither -- [inaudible] up justly incarcerated or interned during world war ii. the german government's reparations for victims of the nazi holocaust, spoke of, and the government's contemplation to indigenous people who were moved forcibly e from their families and -- [inaudible] indian residential schools. invoking the effects of slavery was the goal of several plans put into action during and immediately following the civil war. the country's earliest efforts to notably alter black -- [inaudible] was the federal government's post-civil war plan to give at least 40 acres of abandoned and confiscated land as well as a mule to each formerly-enslaved family of four or 10 acres per person. while some main a towned this -- maintained this planned -- [inaudible] the 19th century is a figment of the black imagination, historical records confirm that the promise of reparations was not a myth. it was inscribed in federal legislation. in fact, the allocation