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Jun 27, 2024 · Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha).
Jun 25, 2024 · Showtime identified 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Spike Lee’s production company, as the ideal outfit. “I was making a concerted effort to get into television,” Sam Kitt, former...
1 day ago · Spike Lee. Shelton Jackson " Spike " Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues.
Jun 13, 2024 · When reading Wilson’s name on the computer screen, I didn’t realize right away that I had come across a batch of land titles issued to formerly enslaved men and women as part of 40 Acres and a Mule, or that these historic documents were only recently digitized and made available online.
Jun 13, 2024 · 40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War. A year and a half later, almost all...
Jun 19, 2024 · After the Civil War, the federal government's pledge of 40 acres and a mule to the formerly enslaved has long been known as a broken promise. But a new investigative report reveals that not...
Jun 28, 2024 · A new podcast series from Reveal revisits the history of 40 Acres and a Mule: the land grants given to recently freed slaves after the Civil War that were later taken away. 40 Acres and a Lie tells the stories of those freed men and women who lost their land, their present descendants, and the Americans who own and live on the land today.
