The Center for Public Integrity’s landmark project, 40 Acres and a Lie has taken second place in the annual Philip Meyer ...

The path toward equity in Austin education is long and fraught. Efforts to create fair learning opportunities for all ...

For example, The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (or Freedmen's Bureau), established by Congress on March 3, 1865, has a wealth of searchable information. Established to ...

Northern aid societies come down to help create schools. The Freedmen's Bureau puts money into creating schools. But most of the schools that spring up are actually created by blacks themselves.

ent operations of the Freedman's Bureau throughout the entire South, new fields of labor, involving new outlay, will be open to the association. Advertisement ...

Oliver Otis Howard, Civil War general; recipient of the Medal of Honor; commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau; among the founders of Howard University (1850) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Civil War ...

By 1880, 95% of African Americans living in Houston resided in Freedmen’s Town, the heart of Fourth Ward. Early in the 20th century, residents, weary of the mud streets, paved passages through ...