African American clients wait in line at the
African American clients wait in line at the Office of the Freedmens Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee, 1866. Congress renewed the charter for the Bureau in 1866, overriding the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The bureau was involved in essential humanitarian work aiding the formerly enslaved to be sheltered, clothed and fed as they transitioned to wage labor in a devastated South
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Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
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Courtesy Everett Collection
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