RESTORE Act

Creates a new national program focused on identifying, preserving, and investing in historic Freedmen’s Settlements (also called Freedom Colonies or Black Towns). It recognizes that these communities were founded by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War, faced violence and disinvestment, and are often under-documented today.

The text provided includes findings and an instruction to add a National Freedom Settlements Preservation Program to federal historic preservation law, but it does not include the program’s details. No specific grants, definitions, agencies, funding levels, or deadlines are specified in the available text.