title: Black STEM USA: America's Next Civil Rights Movement
author: C M Williams
description: C.M. Williams, a North Carolina native, was on the corporate frontlines at General Motors when a black female in Detroits boardrooms was a rare idea. A former executive in GMs Product Development Division, Williams was part of the Chevy Volt Original Concept Team, and was recently appointed to South Carolinas Consumer Protection/Medical Liability Subcommittee by Governor Nikki Haley. Williams, who was also charged with providing automobile forensic depositions, is founder of C M Williams &amp; Associates, LLC, a boutique consulting, data analytics, and publishing company in the diversity and inclusion industry. Co-author Sharon Ewell Foster is best known for her critically-acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning historical fiction. Her first novel, Passing by Samaria (Multnomah), was named the NAACP Book of the Year in 2000 and won the Christy Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Resurrection of Nat Turner (Parts I and II) (Simon and Schuster) is winner of the Civil War Institutes 2012 Shaara Prize for Best Civil War Fiction. A regular contributor to Daily Guideposts, Ms. Fosters first publication was a repair manual for the U.S. Armys Pershing 1a Missile System Blast Deflector.
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  **From Here to Equality**
  
  
  
  
  
  # From Here to Equality
  
  
  Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
  
  
  **William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen**
  
  
  The University of North Carolina Press  
  Chapel Hill
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _This book was published with the assistance of the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund
  of the University of North Carolina Press._
  
  
  © 2020 William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen  
  All rights reserved  
  Manufactured in the United States of America  
  Designed by Richard Hendel  
  Set in Utopia and TheSans  
  by codeMantra, Inc.
  
  
  The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press
  Initiative since 2003.
  
  
  Cover illustration: Memorial Corridor at the National Memorial for Peace and
  Justice, Montgomery, Alabama. Photograph by Soniakapadia.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  
  Names: Darity, William A., Jr., 1953– author. | Mul