As a result of the findings, Florida became the first U.S. state to compensate survivors and their descendants for damages incurred because of racial violence.
The legislature passed the bill, and Governor Chiles signed the Rosewood Compensation Bill, a $2.1 million package to compensate survivors and their descendants.
A yearlong study found that inhibitions against the open expression of racist views had been swept away during the controversy over Switzerland's responsibility to compensate survivors of the Holocaust and their heirs.
A bill is now pending in the Congress that, when passed, will finally compensate victims and survivors.
Negligence suits are intended mainly to compensate survivors for the financial loss involved in a "wrongful death."
Germany paid Israel 450 million DM in Holocaust reparations, and paid 3 billion DM to the World Jewish Congress to compensate survivors in other countries.
In 1994, the Florida Legislature provided up to $2 million to compensate survivors.
Rather than continuing to pursue forlorn ancient claims, they argue that the company should shut down immediately, sell everything and use its remaining money to build a new museum at Auschwitz or to compensate survivors directly.
Two Utah Congressmen, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, a Republican, and Representative Wayne Owens, a Democrat, have proposed legislation to compensate miners and survivors.
