The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. government agency of early post...

The Freedmen's Bureau bills provided legislative authorization for the Freedmen's Bureau (formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned...

wartime Order No. 15 and similar provisions included in the second Freedmen's Bureau bills. Some land redistribution occurred under military jurisdiction...

issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Congress later established a Freedmen's Bureau to provide much-needed food and shelter to the newly freed slaves...

of labor contracts and establishing the Freedmen's Bank, President Abraham Lincoln created the Freedmen's Bureau. In 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton...

termination of freedmen schools. Another organization that heavily affected freedmen's education was the Freedmen's Bureau. The Freedmen's Bureau was created...

extending the Freedmen's Bureau beyond its scheduled abolition in 1867, and the first Civil Rights Bill, to grant citizenship to the freedmen. Trumbull met...

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decisions on his deep, evangelical piety, he was given charge of the Freedmen's Bureau in mid-1865, with the mission of integrating the former slaves into...

defining the status of freedmen. Many black people left the city permanently because of the hostile environment. The Freedmen's Bureau continued to struggle...

Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862–1867 (2001) Crouch, Barry. The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans (1992) Durrill, Wayne...

Congress enacted the Freedmen's Bureau (also known as the Bureau of Refugees or Freedmen and Abandoned Lands) in 1865. The Freedmen's Bureau could be considered...

schools were starved of funds. The federal government through the Freedmen's Bureau, a part of the U.S. Army, created a vast network of schools in camps...

right to vote. The amendment was also used as authorizing several Freedmen's Bureau bills. President Andrew Johnson vetoed these bills, but Congress overrode...

head Superintendent of Freedmen's Affairs, State of Kentucky. Since the government had announced plans to terminate Freedmen's bureau operations in Kentucky...

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of the Freedmen's Bureau for Kentucky and Tennessee under the command of Oliver Otis Howard. He worked through the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned...

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officials. In February 1866, Johnson vetoed legislation extending the Freedmen's Bureau and expanding its powers; Congress was unable to override the veto...

below pre-war rates. The Freedmen's Bureau in Kentucky was especially weak and could not mount a significant response. The Bureau attempted to cancel a racially...

suffered from violence and fraud. Grant recommended continuation of the Freedmen's Bureau, which Johnson opposed, but advised against using black troops, which...

In September 1865, Johnson overturned a Freedmen's Bureau order that had granted abandoned land to freedmen who had begun cultivating it; Johnson instead...

superintendent of education for the Freedmen's Bureau. He established around 60 schools and churches, and met with freedmen and others in the community to...

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org. Accessed 12 July 2011. Cimbala, Paul A. (1989). "The Freedmen's Bureau, the Freedmen, and Sherman's Grant in Reconstruction Georgia, 1865-1867"...

Chester Arthur to Surgeon-in-Charge at the Freedmen's hospital. Purvis was Surgeon-in-Charge at the Freedmen's Hospital from October 1, 1881, to 1894, and...

the Freedmen's Bureau to help freed African Americans, including disabled former slaves, adjust to freedom and what it entailed. The Freedmen's Bureau helped...

War, and served as one of the first African-American clerks in the Freedmen's Bureau in Washington, D.C. Named after a friend of his father and anti-slavery...

participate because the low prices were still too high. A "Second Freedmen's Bureau bill" was introduced December 5, 1865, but was vetoed and weakened...