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Waiting for Rations |
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| Recently freed blacks line up for rations at a Freedmen’s Bureau in the American South. The Bureau was formed in 1865 to provide food and medical and legal assistance to the newly emancipated blacks as well as needy whites. The program opened several schools and educational institutions before it was abandoned only a few years later. | ||||||
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| African American History; United States (History); Freedmen’s Bureau; Reconstruction (U.S. history) | ||||||
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