Every freedpeople attempt at restitution or pension legislation failed

Evidence

Freed people, during and after slavery, tried to compel the government to provide restitution for slavery, to provide at the very least a pension for those who, along with generations of their ancestors, had spent their entire lives toiling for no pay. They filed lawsuits. They organized to lobby politicians. And every effort failed. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1335

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which specific lawsuits and lobbying campaigns did freed people mount? A detail worth chasing for the reparations historiography.