After two years of research, the Fulton County Reparations Task Force Harm Report is now public. The findings center on harms the county was responsible for during the enslavement period from 1854 to 1864, as well as the systems that continued to inflict harm long after slavery ended.
In the final installment of this two-day series, task force chair Dr. Karcheik Sims‑Alvarado, research scientist and secretary Dr. Amanda Meng, journalist and lynching historian Ann Hill Bond, and researcher John Wright detail the county’s role in the aftermath of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, discriminatory property taxation, and the extraction of unpaid labor through convict leasing and labor camps.
All four guests returned to “Closer Look” to continue discussing the report with host Rose Scott and WABE reporter DorMiya Vance, who has been covering the task force…