Thread by @RaceCapitol

Thread 🚨: #RedForEd
As we march for education, let’s stand tall on the of our #ancestors with a RICHMOND review:⠀
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In March 1865, Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau.

It was intended to address another major problem created by the war, the disposition of property abandoned by or confiscated from planters and property owned by the Confederate government and seized by Union forces (the winners). Those lands were essential to the original design

of the bureau as Congress figured the new agency wouldn’t need federal funds cuz of the sale or rental of tens of thousands of acres of abandoned and confiscated property (EQUITY).⠀
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Guess what ain’t happen. 😐 President Andrew Johnson, who opposed the Freedmen’s Bureau...

weakened the organization by pardoning the majority of former Confederates (the losers) and restoring their property. That left the bureau with little real estate with which to allocate land/ buildings for black education. 🤬

The Freedmen’s Bureau was not allowed to expend funds on teacher salaries, schoolbooks, or classroom apparatuses. It was limited to resourcing black communities to raise money to purchase land for school buildings, providing building material from abandoned military buildings,

transporting teachers to their schools, and paying rent on schoolhouses. -1870⠀
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Sound familiar?⠀
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Join the continuation of the Richmond education advocacy as the #RedforEd Campiagn demands more funding for our schools! ✊🏾 11am Monroe Park. #RPS

Richmond Teachers have always marched for our children.

Let us be no different 🙌🏾

#RedForEd #RPS
@theValentineRVA ♥️