The Freedmen’s Bureau: How Racist Lawmakers Thwarted an Early Attempt at Reparations
In an attempt to support this transition, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly referred to as the ...
The New York Times1mon
The Freedmen's Bureau The Bills Before Congress To-day.
The fifth section seems at first reading to include "all the real estate to which the United States have title," which would give the Freedmen's Bureau control over all public lands; but this may ...
The New York Times19d
The Freedmen's Relief Meeting.
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 ...
Click2Houston20d
Historic homes in Freedmen’s Town to be preserved, restored and transformed into affordable housing
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 ...
Mother Jones1mon
How a Black Utopia For Formerly Enslaved People Became a Wealthy White Enclave
But it wouldn’t last. Within two years, the government had taken that land back from the freedmen and returned it to the former enslavers. Over a two-and-a-half-year investigation, journalists ...
PBS5y
Timeline of the Jubilee Singers
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was created to attend to both the immediate and long-term needs of freedpeople in the South. Food, shelter, and medical attention were ...
WTVD21d
Princeville established in NC by freedmen remains a beacon of resilience: 'Carrying the mantle'
PRINCEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- Nearly 150 years after Princeville, North Carolina was established and incorporated by freedmen, there are questions about how they would view the town today.