Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union general William Tecumseh...

has produced all of Lee's films. The company's name is a reference to forty acres and a mule, a section of military orders during the American Civil War...

Forty Acres may be: 40 Acres (album), the 1999 release from Caedmon's Call 40 Acres (film), a 2024 Canadian thriller film Forty acres and a mule, a term...

"Forty acres and a mule" meeting. Frazier's intervention helped to motivate General Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15 or the "Forty acres and a mule"...

pro-worker, decentralized views promoted by Dorothy Day. "Forty acres and a mule", referring to a promised reallocation of land to formerly-enslaved peoples...

in farming, leading to the phrase "forty acres and a mule". The Freedmen's Bureau was created by the government and President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 to...

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state would have to take a loyalty oath, not just ten percent. Lincoln later pocket-vetoed this new bill. Forty acres and a mule Freedmen's Bureau Treatment...

600 km2) in coastal Georgia and South Carolina to 40,000 freed slaves in forty-acre plots, this order was intended to provide for the thousands of escaped...

Field Orders No. 15 ("Forty acres and a mule") is the most well known attempt to help newly freed slaves integrate into society and accumulate wealth. However...

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robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as a restitution...

people (summarized as the promise of "forty acres and a mule"). She continued to fight on behalf of women and African Americans until her death. As her...

racing, and dancing." Most of its members opposed slavery. Overcoming financial challenges, Thomas in 1827 obtained clear title to 80 acres (32 ha) in...

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guy" and "forty acres and a mule, this is bigger than the music". Analysis from The Root concluded that Jackson's role as Uncle Sam represented a "sanitized"...

prophet", NYU Press, New York, 2008. Oubre, Claude F. Forty Acres and a Mule: The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Land Ownership. Louisiana State University Press...

newspaper called Forty Acres and a Mule, as he initially wanted to become a writer. During this time he went through a life-style change and became a vegetarian...

is reflected in a brief scene in which Mammy fends off a leering freedman: a politician can be heard offering forty acres and a mule to the emancipated...

During the Civil War and Reconstruction. ISBN 978-0-8232-1894-3. Retrieved July 5, 2010. Danielle Alexander, "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of...

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Republican Party and held their own convention. The 1872 Liberal Republican convention nominated Greeley, a New York newspaper publisher, and wrote a platform...

1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain...

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the first time his Homestead Bill, to grant 160 acres (65 ha) to people willing to settle the land and gain title to it. This issue was especially important...

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McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote. For the election, the Republican Party and some Democrats...

slaves: that after the Civil War, they would get forty acres and a mule". Cory Booker is sponsor of a companion bill in the Senate. Democratic House Speaker...