In the post-Civil War South, the federal government worked to protect newly freed citizens and immigrants by establishing ...
This year marks 160 years since that bureau's creation, which makes this a great time to recognize its legacy, its unfulfilled promises, and what we can learn from it all. Although this agency was ...
M.M.A.S. U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2009. TABLE OF CONTENTS; ABSTRACT; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1 -- INTRODUCTION; Birth of a "Peculiar Institution"; The Early Debate: A Snapshot of ...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Freedmen's Bureau was established by the government in 1865 to provide assistance to free men and women once slavery ended. Many of the remaining documents from that ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. As the Civil War drew to a close, ...
Professional genealogist Renate Yarborough Sanders will offer a free talk on Exploring Records of the Freedmen’s Bureau at the next general meeting of the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society, ...
In the late 1860s James Kelley, a man living in Chicot County, Ark., wrote to the Freedmen's Bureau asking for help in finding his children. Like thousands of black families, they had been separated ...
40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles, only to take the land back. Read more here and listen to a three-part ...
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A granite historic marker, approved by the Kingstree Architectural Review Board, commemorating the 1867 Freedmen’s Bureau Transportation Request to transport 435 Freed men, women and children from ...
Virginia is leading the nation in a historic project that digitizes records of emancipated slaves, freed blacks and black Union soldiers, making them available to the public. Gov. Tim Kaine announced ...
HEMPSTEAD COUNTY, Arkansas (KTAL/KMSS) — The Ethnic Minority Museum Association (E.M.M.A.) is hosting the rededication of the E.M.M.A. Black History Museum. The rededication is partially in honor of ...
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