NPR features a podcast in which reporter Sarah McCammon discusses the origins, development, and eventual reversal of "Forty Acres…
PBS presents a modern article, written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., titled, "The Truth Behind '40 Acres and a Mule,'" which examines…
The Washington Post features an article, written by DeNeen L. Brown and published on April 15, 2021, titled, "40 Acres and a Mule:…
PBS provides a video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross series, which explains the origins of the phrase “Forty…
Zinn Project Education features a lesson activity created by Adam Sanchez that involves multiday role play based on the phrase,…
BlackPast provides the text of the historical military orders that were issued by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on…
The National Archives features an article that was written by Miranda Booker Perry and published in the summer 2010 edition of…
The African American Intellectual History Society features an article, written by Karen Cook Bell and published on November 11,…
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History provides a historical contract between White landowner Isham G. Bailey and Black…
The New York Public Library features a historical photo that shows two African American men in front of the Putnam House in…
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Blue Ridge Public Radio presents a podcast that was published on July 16, 2020, in which host Anita Rao talks to Robert Thomas,…
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