An unrealized promise included in Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 (January 16, 1865) that allotted land and animals to newly freed families.
PBS provides a video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross series, which explains the origins of the phrase “Forty Acres and a Mule,” which…
The African American Intellectual History Society features an article, written by Karen Cook Bell and published on November 11, 2017, titled, "African…
