Black Economic Development Conference The Black Economic Development Conference took place in Detroit from April 25-27, 1969. The conference was organized by African American clergymen and businesspeople who had received money from black caucuses in predominantly white Christian denominations. James Forman, an author, and an American Civil Rights leader active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, and the International Black Workers Congress, presented at the conference his famous “Black Manifesto,” which called for reparations to African Americans for slavery. Forman demanded that both white churches and white synagogues pay $500 million in total in order to support black companies and institutions, such as a land bank and a publishing company, for their complicity in racism. detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/black-economic-development-conference
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