Reparations have been paid to various groups throughout the years. Japanese Americans who were interned in concentration camps during World War II got reparations in the form of checks for $20,000 accompanied by a letter of apology. They were the first reparations in the U.S. issued under the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, a historic law that offered monetary redress to over 80,000 people, History.com reported.
