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 16th,...

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"...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

acres (1.6 ha) of pasture. In What's Wrong With the World, G. K. Chesterton used the phrase to summarise his own distributist opinions. "Forty acres and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

advised him to go for a third term and he almost did so, but on December 15, 1875, the House, by a sweeping 233–18 vote, passed a resolution declaring...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

away the land owned by whites, giving it to former slaves. (See Forty acres and a mule.) Men claiming to represent the government confiscate the material...

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

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

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

ISBN 978-1-85760-042-1 Prestwich 1997, p. 216 Diane M. Korngiebel (2003). "Forty acres and a mule: the mechanics of English settlement in North-east Wales after the...

"Forty acres and a mule" meeting, resulted in Sherman issuing, on January 16, 1865, Special Field Orders, No. 15, also known as the "Forty acres and a...