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Hace 4 días · The phrase "40 acres and a mule" has come to symbolize the broken promise that Reconstruction policies would offer economic justice for African Americans. The "40 acres and a mule" promise featured prominently in the class action racial discrimination lawsuit of Pigford v. Glickman.
13 de jun. de 2024 · 40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War. A year and a half later, almost all the...
25 de jun. de 2024 · In the years following the Civil War, formerly enslaved Black Americans in the South were promised “40 acres and a mule” to provide them with land and resources for economic self-sufficiency.
19 de jun. de 2024 · After the Civil War, the federal government’s pledge of 40 acres and a mule to the formerly enslaved has been known as a broken promise. But a new report reveals that not only did the government...
13 de jun. de 2024 · We ultimately created at least 100 family trees and identified 41 living descendants, several of whom April and I and Reveal’s Nadia Hamdan interviewed for this project. Some of them had no idea their ancestors had received land as part of 40 Acres and a Mule.
15 de jun. de 2024 · Union General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Orders, No. 15 – better known as 40 acres and a mule – implied a better life in the waning days of the Civil War. Hutchinson is among the formerly enslaved people who received land through the field orders, which are often thought of as a promise that was never kept.
24 de jun. de 2024 · The promise of "40 acres and a mule", is often thought of as a broken one. But it turns out, some freed people actually received land as reparations after the Civil War.
