Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865...

40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks is the production company of Spike Lee, founded in 1979. The company name is a reference to the phrase most often used to...

Forty Acres may be: 40 Acres (album), the 1999 release from Caedmon's Call Forty acres and a mule, a term for compensation that was supposedly to be awarded...

"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"...

their lands. Although mules are not mentioned in the orders, they were a main source for the expression "forty acres and a mule." A historical marker commemorating...

(1940) 6#3 pp: 303-330. in JSTOR Oubre, Forty Acres and a Mule (1978), pp. 86–87. Oubre, Forty Acres and a Mule (1978), p. 81, 93. Paul W. Gates, "Federal...

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...

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...

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...

and a mule", referring to what was granted to some emancipated slaves during the American Civil War. American Chesterton Society, "Origin of 3 Acres and...

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...

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...

Affairs Freedmen's Savings Bank Forty acres and a mule Freedmen's Cemetery Chalmette, Louisiana Freedmen's Schools For access and inquires about the use of...

and Johnson's would-be attacker became drunk instead of killing the vice president. After a dramatic initial escape, Booth was killed at the end of a...

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...

other songs and aspects of American culture. One of the opening lines, "Fifty acres and Model A", reflect the promise of forty acres and a mule to be given...

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...

his deal had been rejected, and that "hostilities should be immediately resumed after giving the Confederates the forty-eight hours' notice required...

University Forty acres and a mule Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks Fountain Hughes Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Four Eleven Forty Four...

the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by the Senate on...

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...

1875, pp. 106–107. Alexander, Danielle (January–February 2004). "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of Reconstruction". Humanities. 25 (1). Archived...

the claim that the Union government had promised freed slaves "forty acres and a mule", were revoked later that year by President Johnson. Towards the...

reputation in the Republican Party as a prominent member of the "Half-Breed" faction. He served in Congress from 1865 to 1867 and was elected governor of Ohio...

cases into the first group and commuted their sentences. In the second group were forty cases. One he commuted for becoming a state's witness. Sibley dismissed...

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...

Congress > Senate > Vote 361". voteview.com. Retrieved April 8, 2022. Curt Anders "Powerlust: Radicalism in the Civil War Era" p. 531 Journal of the House...

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...

reconstruction states like South Carolina and Tennessee. In the wake of the Civil War, the civil rights of former slaves was a hotly debated issue in the Union...

both his arms. List of massacres in Louisiana Danielle Alexander, "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Ruined Hope of Reconstruction", Humanities, January/February...