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A price tag on trauma? College town weighs Black reparations

A price tag on trauma? College town weighs Black reparations PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9Former University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor Edwin Driver is interviewed at his home, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in South Hadley, Mass. Amherst is on a path toward providing reparations to Black residents for past injustices following the town council s adoption of a resolution calling for the community to become an anti-racist town.Charles Krupa/APShow MoreShow Less 2of9Past Amherst, Mass., area residents Henry Jackson, center, Lt. Frazar Stearns, left, and Anna Reed Goodwin, right, are featured on the Amherst Community History Mural, as seen through the adjacent West Cemetery fence, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in Amherst, Mass. Amherst is on a path toward providing reparations to Black residents for past injustices following the town council s adoption of a resolution calling for the community to become an anti-racist town.Charles Krupa/APShow Mo

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Mass town mulls Black reparations, victim speaks

Prof. Edwin Driver was one of the first Black teachers hired at a flagship state university in the country when he joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1948. He suffered racial discrimination, but may one day receive reparations. (March 10)

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A price tag on trauma? College town weighs Black reparations Amherst, some 90 miles from Boston, is among hundreds of communities and organizations across the country seeking to provide reparations to Black people Professor Edwin Driver arrived in Amherst in 1948 as one of the first Black teachers hired at a flagship state university in the country. But the 23-year-old sociology instructor at what would become the University of Massachusetts Amherst says he was denied pay raises for decades, despite being one of its most published professors. Driver and his wife, who was from India, also encountered roadblocks trying to buy a house in the mostly white college town. Their three children faced racism from neighbors and school officials alike.

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