The Freedmen's Bureau also helped freedpeople navigate labor contracts, sometimes helping them negotiate better terms than those offered that were still in alignment with the Black codes, laws ...

The Freedmen's Bureau, as the Bureau was commonly known, was established in the War Department by an act of March 39 1865 (13 Stat. 507). Congress assigned to the Bureau responsibilities that ...

[The following is reproduced from the original NARA descriptive pamphlet for M1000.] HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION The Freedmen's Bureau, as the Bureau was commonly known, was established in the War ...

After briefly practicing in Boston, Crumpler relocated to Richmond, Virginia, in 1865. There, she worked with the Freedmen’s Bureau, an agency created by Congress to aid formerly enslaved people ...

Doris Ellis Robinson, founder and president of the Freedmen’s Town Preservation Coalition, reported that contractors damaged historic bricks in Houston’s Fourth Ward.

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Pictured are damaged bricks in the historic Freedmen’s Town neighborhood in Houston on Thursday, June 5, 2025. "I don’t want to think about (Johnson) not being there to stop it," Fletcher said.

Since President Trump returned to the White House, he’s issued executive orders that target diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, dismantling decades of federal anti-discrimination policy.

“This is a significant month, it’s Juneteenth, the month when slaves were freed.And now, in the same month, contractors have come and destroyed the work of our ancestors,” Robinson said.

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 ...

The Freedmen’s Bureau was established on March 3, 1865, when the act that created it was passed by Congress and later signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. As the National Archives ...