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Thanks to the incredible efforts of #volunpeers we have officially transcribed over 100,000 pages of Freedmen's Bureau records from @NMAAHC!
Join us all week as we explore the impact of this tremendous milestone on historical and genealogical research with #DiscoverTCFreedmen.
Join us all week as we explore the impact of this tremendous milestone on historical and genealogical research with #DiscoverTCFreedmen.
Created by the U.S. govt. in 1865, the Freedmen's Bureau aided over 4 million newly freed African Americans and oversaw the political/social reconstruction of the south-reuniting loved ones, settling labor and land disputes, establishing schools, and more. nmaahc.si.edu/explore/initia…
The records produced by the Bureau represent a rich, unparalleled resource for understanding the African American experience pre-1870, providing some of the earliest documentation of the names and experiences of enslaved individuals. s.si.edu/311nUSC
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This month marks 100 years since the 19th Amendment became law. With @USNatArchives and @librarycongress, we're counting down #19SuffrageStories of women who worked for the vote—before and after 1920—through the Aug. 26 anniversary. #BecauseOfHerStory s.si.edu/2Dg3n3p
The #19thAmendment said women could not be excluded from the polls because of their sex, but it did not guarantee the ballot. Citizenship laws, poll taxes, threats and violence barred African American, Latina, Native American, Asian American, immigrant, and poor women.
In 1962, Fannie Lou Hamer was one of 18 African Americans who traveled 26 miles to register to vote at a Mississippi courthouse. The 19th Amendment had not removed racist Jim Crow laws, and the group was told they'd need to take a literacy test. #19SuffrageStories
