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• The Freedmen's Bureau
  | title = The Freedmen's Bureau ... at last there arose in the South a government of men called the Freedmen's Bureau, which lasted, legally, from 1865 to 1872, but in a sense from 1861 to 187 ...
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• The Souls of Black Folk/II
  :History's lessons but record ... n of Freedom is an account of that government of men called the Freedmen's Bureau, -- one of the most singular and interesting of the attempts made by a gre ...
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• Oregon v. Mitchell/Concurrence-dissent Harlan
  From the standpoint of this Court's decisions during an era of judicial constitutional revision in the field o ... ... voting in presidential elections. Among the more substantial changes, Idaho's present 60-day state residency requirement will, in effect, be lowered to ...
  153 KB (24733 words) - 23:09, 5 May 2008
• In re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation
  ... tiffs' Complaint asks the courts to reexamine a tragic period in our Nation's history and to hold various corporate defendants liable for the commercial ... ... efendants acknowledge that slavery marked a deplorable period in our Nation's history. However, they assert that Plaintiffs' claims, which arise from th ...
  205 KB (31434 words) - 02:48, 12 March 2007
• Regents of University of California v. Bakke/Separate Marshall
  ... an applicant in making admissions decisions. I do not agree that petitioner's admissions program violates the Constitution. For it must be remembered th ... ''Slaughter-House Cases'', 16 Wall. 36, 70 (1873). Despite the passage of the ...
  31 KB (4840 words) - 04:42, 6 May 2008
• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/United States/History
  ... board of trade; by the treasury and admiralty boards and their subordinate bureaus; by the attorney-general and the solicitor-general and by the bishop of L ... ... to full rights, therefore, without further provision for securing for the freedmen Northern the reality of their freedom, and without some Attitude means of ...
  612 KB (100619 words) - 02:33, 23 October 2008
• Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant/Chapter XXX
  ... FREEDMEN--OCCUPATION OF HOLLY SPRINGS--SHERMAN ORDERED TO MEMPHIS--SHERMAN'S MOVEMENTS DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI--VAN DORN CAPTURES HOLLY SPRINGS--COLLECTIN ... possibility of supplying a moving column in an enemy's country from the
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• William Howard Taft's Second State of the Union Address
  ... ment and the cordial cooperation of other governments interested in Liberia's welfare. ... capital in the development of China an instrument in the promotion of China's welfare and material prosperity without prejudice to her legitimate rights ...
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• History of the United States, Volume 1/Chapter XV
  ... n of independence. In a few days the suspense was over. The news of Lincoln's election came speeding along the wires. Prepared for the event, the editor ... '''Secession.'''—As arranged, the convention of South Carolina assembled in D ...
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• The Souls of Black Folk/VI
  ... en bread and butter from the mouths of the heavily handicapped sons of the freedmen. In the midst, then, of the larger problem of Negro education sprang up th ... ... ng first raised to a dignity that brought it in direct touch with the South's magnificent industrial development, and given an emphasis which reminded b ...
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• Of the Training of Black Men
  ... en bread and butter from the mouths of the heavily handicapped sons of the freedmen. In the midst, then, of the larger problem of Negro education sprang up th ... ... ng first raised to a dignity that brought it in direct touch with the South's magnificent industrial development, and given an emphasis which reminded b ...
  32 KB (5576 words) - 01:45, 16 January 2008
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
  ... ureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands|a Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees]], and all acts amendatory thereof, or for refusing to do any ... ... t the laws of the United States, the officers and agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, and every other officer who may be specially empowered by the President o ...
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• District of Columbia v. Heller/Opinion of the Court
  ... example of usage: “Servants and labourers shall use bows and arrows on ''Sundays'', &c. and not bear other arms.” See also, ''e.g.'', An Act for th ... ... e State of Delaware 102, 104 (J. Cushing ed. 1981 (pt. 1)); see generally ''State v. Duke'', 42 Tex. 455, 458 (1874) (citing decisions of state courts c ...
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• Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/The United States of America
  ... hatever. The two branches are always mentioned as two companies. King James's patent of 10 April, 1606, is a document of interest. It provides that Engl ... ... Williams' War.''' The first, which began in 1689, is known as King William's War, ending in 1697 by the treaty of Ryswick.
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• The Origins of the Islamic State
  and particularly 'Umar's system of assigning state pensions Wakidi's (d. 207/822). Some books were issued treating
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• The Souls of Black Folk/XIV
  ... ntil the Fisk Jubilee Singers sang the slave songs so deeply into the world's heart that it can never wholly forget them again. ... ht at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and finally served in the Freedmen's Bureau at Nashville. Here he formed a Sunday-school class of black children in 18 ...
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• The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Holland)
  ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S LABORS,<br> ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S LIFE;<br>
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• The New Student's Reference Work/Negro, The Education of the
  ... izations for educational purposes.&nbsp; On May 20, 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau was established by the national government, and Major-General O.&nbsp;O. H ...
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• The New Student's Reference Work/Armstrong, Samuel Chapman
  ... gadier-general. During the war he took a hearty interest in the Freedmen's Bureau, and in 1868 he founded and became principal of the Hampton Institute of V ...
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• Author:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
  * ''[[The Freedmen's Bureau]]'' (1901)
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