On Exhibit: Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records
Jessie Kratz
To commemorate Black History Month, a special featured document display on Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records will be in the East Rotunda Gallery of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, from February 4–March 3, 2025.
As the Civil War neared its end, Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands inside the War Department. Popularly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, it provided assistance to formerly enslaved people in the southern states and the District...