Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs
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Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs
@freedmenaffairs.bsky.social
Freedmen were first described by the US around the year 1861. Today Freedmen are descendants bound to an ethnicity of ancestors classified as Negro, Black or Colored and emancipated between 1861-1865. https://www.texasvolunteercouncil.org
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Welcome to Freedmen Heritage Month 2025. Our American Freedmen Ancestors found a way to be free and stay free.

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October 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The First Americans were as diverse as any other continent.

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Erased From History: America's First Peoples (Before 1619)
YouTube video by The Hidden Histories Collective
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September 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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#OTD in 1963, a dynamite blast planted by the Ku Klux Klan killed four young girls in the church: Denise McNair, age 11, and Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins, all 14 years old. Twenty other people were injured. No one was arrested for the bombings for 14 years.
September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Industrial farmers are being squeezed by bad foreign policy. #WeThePeople must take food sovereignty home to #GrassrootsActivism

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September 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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There is no democracy with inequality. Like Dr. Butch specifies, "who funds you runs you."

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Refusing the help California’s homeless is costing taxpayers billions.
YouTube video by Niko House
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September 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
No, there is nothing Christian about slavery. Slavery is an abomination. Read how a Freedman Soldier describes freeing his daughters.

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September 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Welcome to Freedmen Heritage Month 2025. Our American Freedmen Ancestors found a way to be free and stay free.

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September 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Welcome Freedmen Heritage Month
As we begin the 1st few weeks of classes, a reminder that FSSP hosts a large collection of classroom-ready documents related to slavery & its destruction. These first-hand testimonies of enslaved people, Black soldiers, & officials give life to lessons on slavery & the contested arc of emancipation.
Freedmen and Southern Society Project: Selected Documents
A selection of documents from Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867
www.freedmen.umd.edu
September 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is how Texas legislators responded to the Texas Freedman's Bureau Act of 2025 sent to them in January. Prepare now to vote and replace them all.

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August 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM