The order, which stated “so that each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground…,” led to the ...

In an attempt to support this transition, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly referred to as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established. Stay up-to-date with the politics team.

Week after week we’ve witnessed company after company cave to the fear of President Donald Trump’s iron claw and abandon their so-called “commitments” to diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Freedmen’s Town Conservancy is working to ... Fletcher said the Houston Community Land Trust will identify and qualify a buyer with incomes under 80% of the Area Median to receive a grant ...

Freedmen land allotments provided a foundation for prosperity, proving that when resources and opportunity align, Black communities flourish. Today, we must channel that same collaborative spirit ...

The National Freedmen's Relief Society ... to what extent the emancipated negro is becoming an owner of property and land; what his relation will be to the new Yankee master; what the moral ...

If history had taken a different turn, the place now known as Oklahoma could have seen an even stronger win for Native ...

A Freedmen's Town is considered intact when it ... As you're going towards the back, it's like, 'Wait, is this land to bury more people or are there people here?' The white side of the cemetery ...

On March 3, 1865, Congress established the Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees. The department provided food, shelter, clothing, medical aid, education and land to the newly freed ...