The earliest proposal for racial reparations came __________
a) in 1867, when Thaddeus Stevens proposed compensating freed slaves with land
b) in 1904, when Teddy Roosevelt argued African Americans should be offered land in the American West
c) in 1938, as part of a New Deal program declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
d) in 1967, as part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society proposals
Answer: a
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