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 ...

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.

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 ...