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Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs

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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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Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs @freedmenaffairs.bsky.social · Sep 5

Welcome to Freedmen Heritage Month 2025. Our American Freedmen Ancestors found a way to be free and stay free.

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Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs @freedmenaffairs.bsky.social · 16h

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Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs @freedmenaffairs.bsky.social · 15d

The First Americans were as diverse as any other continent.

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Erased From History: America's First Peoples (Before 1619)

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 29d

#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.

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Justice For All Party Grassroots @justice4allparty.bsky.social · 29d

Industrial farmers are being squeezed by bad foreign policy. #WeThePeople must take food sovereignty home to #GrassrootsActivism

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Justice For All Party Grassroots @justice4allparty.bsky.social · Sep 10

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.

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Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs @freedmenaffairs.bsky.social · Sep 6

No, there is nothing Christian about slavery. Slavery is an abomination. Read how a Freedman Soldier describes freeing his daughters.

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Justice For All Party Grassroots @justice4allparty.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs @freedmenaffairs.bsky.social · Sep 5

Welcome to Freedmen Heritage Month 2025. Our American Freedmen Ancestors found a way to be free and stay free.

www.texasvolunteercouncil.org/wiki

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Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs @freedmenaffairs.bsky.social · Sep 3

Welcome Freedmen Heritage Month

Freedmen and Southern Society Project @fssp.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs @freedmenaffairs.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thinking they want to fail???

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Billions Leave the U.S. Every Year, But They Say $14 Trillion for Us Is “Impossible”

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Volunteer Council on Freedmen Affairs @freedmenaffairs.bsky.social · Aug 25

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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