The successes of the Freedman’s Bureau, initiated by Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and first administered under Oliver Howard’s War Department, are all the more remarkable considering the intense popular and political opposition to the agency. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Under Lincoln’s successor, impeached Southern Democrat Andrew Johnson, the Bureau at times became a hostile entity to the […]
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The Lost Promise of Reconstruction | The New York Times
Can we reanimate the dream of freedom that Congress tried to enact in the wake of the Civil War?
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