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The Freedmen’s Bureau: How Racist Lawmakers Thwarted an Early Attempt at Reparations

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 ...
WTVD

Fayetteville State University among those collaborating with Smithsonian to transcribe Freedmen's Bureau documents

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 ...
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The Freedmen's Bureau, politics, and stability operations during reconstruction in the South / by William H. Burks

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 ...
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Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1864-1869.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. [The following is reproduced from the original NARA descriptive pamphlet for M1026.] HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION The Freedmen's Bureau, as the Bureau ...
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Mentor Public Library hosting talk on legacy of The Freedmen’s Bureau

People can explore the history and legacy of The Freedmen’s Bureau and its director, Union Gen. Oliver O. Howard, during a Civil War program at noon Nov. 13 at Mentor Public Library’s Main Branch, ...
Post and Courier

Historic Marker to be Unveiled for 1867 Kingstree to Galveston Freedmen’s Bureau Transportation Request

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 ...