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Take action to support Freedmens Settlements and historic Black towns We urgently invite you to support a critical legislative package introduced in Congress to preserve Freedmens Settlements and historic Black towns established after emancipation. The Revitalizing and Empowering Settlements Through Opportunity Resilience and Education RESTORE Act establishes the first federal program specifically supporting these historic communities with funding through 2030 and the accompanying resolution calls for immediate executive action to protect them. Shirley Chisholm Words of Wisdom We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together socially economically and politically. You dont make progress by standing on the sidelines whimpering and complaining.