FREEDMEN  UNIVERSITY

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Freedmen University

AIM: To Empower the American Freedmen by providing Enlightenment, Information, and Resources.

Freedmen: A term often used historically to describe formerly enslaved people {Black Americans} particularly during and after the Civil War in the United States.

Historically the term has also been associated with: 

The Freedmen's Bureau: A government agency established to assist formerly enslaved people {Black Americans} during Reconstruction. 

 

The Freedmen's Bank: A private savings bank chartered by the U.S. Congress, to collect deposits from the newly emancipated communities.
 

The History and Culture of the American Freedmen has been one of Resistance. 

  • Resistance to Injustice 
  • Resistance to Tyranny 
  • Resistance to Limitations 

To facilitate our AIM Freedmen University has:

  1. Provided Information on Various Historical Categories of American Freedmen Greatness in one place for you to Copy Paste & Research Yourself.
  2. Elected Black Diamond Associates as an official "Empowerment Resource" for the Freedmen University Alumni.
  3. Adopted The Freedmen News Journal as the Voice of Freedmen University. 
  4. Elected Google Career Certificates as a professional "Job Training Resource" for the Freedmen University Alumni.
  5. More Resources to come...

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Wants the American Freedmen to Know, Remember, and be Proud of their Ancestral American Heritage

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HIGHWAY  ROBBERY

The Freedmens Bank Tragedy 

{Over 1.3 Billion Stolen}

1865-1874

AMERICAN HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY 

3000 years of Freedmen History in Amer-rica

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The Mississippians: Ancestral Descendants of "American" Freedmen whose Lineage trace as far back as the Woodland Period {1000 BCE} of America. 

Note: 1000 BCE is 3000+ years ago.

 

American: The word American was first used around 1570 by European colonizers to refer to the Indigenous Peoples living in the Americas. 

Note: In about 1640, a new idea started to take hold, that an "American" was a resident of North America and of European descent.

 

United States: A cooperation operating on the territory of North America with political subdivisions for the purpose of engaging in business through contracts. 

Reference: Letter from George Washington to the Sultan of Morocco 1789

 

The Descendants of this Indigenous Negro American Culture include the:

1. Alabama 

2. Apalachee 

3. Arikara 

4. Caddo 

5. Chickasaw 

6. Catawba 

7. Choctaw 

8. Muscogee 

9. Creek 

10. Guale

11. Hitchiti 

12. Ho-Chunk 

13. Houma 

14. Iowa 

15. Kansa 

16. Koroas 

17. Missouria 

18. Mobilian 

19. Natchez 

20. Omaha 

21. Osage 

22. Otoe 

23. Pawnee 

24. Ponca 

25. Quapaw 

26. Seminole

27. Taensas 

28. Tunicas 

29. Yamasee 

30. Yazoos 

31. Yuchi
 

Which One Are You???

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FBA Freedmen History in America & The United States

 

INVASION  COLONIZATION  POWERSHIFT

 

  • Wars: βš”οΈ
  • Fires: πŸ”₯
  • Massacres: 🩸

 

βš”οΈ1526: San Miguel de Gual-da-pe

 

  • 1570: The word American is used by European colonizers to refer to the Indigenous Peoples living in the Americas

 

  • 1607: British establish Colony in Virginia 
  • 1620: British establish Colony in Massachusetts
  • 1623: British establish Colony in New Hampshire
  • 1632: British establish Colony in Maryland
  • 1636: British establish Colony in Connecticut
  • 1636: British establish Colony in Rhode Island
  • 1638: British establish Colony in Delaware

 

  • 1640: A new idea started to take hold, that an "American" was a resident of North America and of European descent

 

  • 1663: British establish Colony in North Carolina & South Carolina
  • 1664: British establish Colony in New York
  • 1665:British establish Colony in New Jersey
  • 1669: Casual killing Act
  • 1681: British establish Colony in Pennsylvania 

 

βš”οΈNote: 1689-1747: Jacobite Risings

 

βš”οΈ1712: New York Slave Revolt

  • 1717: The Transportation/Piracy Act

βš”οΈ1730: Chesapeake Rebellion

  • 1732: British establish Colony in Georgia

βš”οΈ1739: The Stono Rebellion

βš”οΈ1739 - 1858: The Gullah Wars

  • 1740: The Negro Act
  • 1774: The Continental Congress Created

βš”οΈ1775-1783: The "American" Revolutionary War

 

πŸ“1776: The Declaration of Independence was Signed

 

πŸ“1777: The Articles of Confederation Created 

πŸ“1786: Moroccan Treaty of Peace & Friendship

  • 1786: Tignon Laws

πŸ“1787: The U.S. Constitution was Written

  • 1789: The Continental Congress is Dissolved

 

⭐ 1789: Congress creates the Office of Attorney General & The US Marshals

 

πŸ“ 1789: Letter from George Washington to Sultan of Morocco

 

  • 1790: Sundry Free Moors Act
  • 1790: The Patent Act was Signed

πŸ“1795: Treaty with Algiers

πŸ“1796 Treaty of Tripoli

πŸ“1797: Treaty of Tunis

βš”οΈ1800: Gabriel Prosser Rebellion

  • 1801: District of Columbia Organic Act

βš”οΈ1801-1805:  First Barbary War

πŸ”₯1805: Great Fire of Detroit

βš”οΈ1811: German Coast Uprising

βš”οΈ1814: Battle at Horseshoe Bend

βš”οΈ1815-1816: Second Barbary War

βš”οΈ1816: Battle of Negro Fort

 

  • 1816: The "American" Colonization Society: (Created to send Freedmen to Africa)

 

βš”οΈ1818: Battle of Suwanee

πŸ”₯1820: Great Savannah Fire

βš”οΈ1822: Denmark Vesey Rebellion

 

  • 1822: The "American" Colonization Society Creates Liberia

 

πŸ“1823: The Monroe Doctrine

  • 1830: Indian Removal Act

βš”οΈ1831: Nat Turner Rebellion

πŸ”₯1835: Great Fire of New York

βš”οΈ1835: The Dade Massacre

βš”οΈ1835: Battle of Withlacoochee River

 

πŸ“1836: Moroccan Treaty of Peace & Friendship Renewal

 

βš”οΈ1837: Battle of Lake Okeechobee

  • 1838: The Trail of Tears

πŸ”₯1845: Great New York City Fire

 

  • 1850: Democratic Congress pass The Fugitive Slave Act

     

βš”οΈ1850-1860: The Nativist vs. Immigrant Wars

 

πŸ”₯1852/1854: Boston Fires

 

⭐ 1854: The Republican Party was founded to oppose the expansion of slavery into western territories

 

  • 1857: The Panic of 1857

βš”οΈ1861-1865: The American Civil War

πŸ“1862: The Legal Tender Act

🩸1863: New York Massacre

πŸ”₯1864: Great Boston Herald Fire

 

⭐ 1865: 13th Amendment; Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude across the nation, except as a punishment for a convicted crime

 

  • 1865: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln who Negotiated Special Field Orders No. 15 (40 acres & mule)

 

  • 1865-1869: President Andrew Johnson struck down the negotiation & enacted The Freedmens Bank

 

⭐ 1865: Congress establishes The Freedmen's Bureau & The Freedmen's Bank

 

  • 1865: Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan

 

⭐ 1866: Congress establishes The Buffalo Soldiers 

 

⭐ 1866: Congress pass The Civil Rights Act 1866

 

🩸1866: Memphis Massacre

🩸1866: New Orleans Massacre

 

⭐ 1868: 14th Amendment: Granted birthright citizenship, due process, and equal protection under the law to all people born or naturalized in the United States

 

🩸1868: Camila Massacre

🩸1868: Opelousas Massacre

🩸1868: St Benard Parish Massacre

 

⭐ 1870: 15th Amendment: Prohibited the federal government and states from denying any citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

 

⭐1870: US Department of Justice created

  • 1871: The District of Columbia Organic Act 

πŸ”₯1871: The "Night America Burned

🩸1873: Calfax Massacre

🩸1874: Vicksburg Massacre

🩸1875: Clinton Massacre

 

  • 1874: Congress Shutdown The Freedmens Bank. White Supremacist stole the equivalent of $1.3 Billion from FBA Freedmen

 

⭐ 1875: Congress pass The Civil Rights Act 1875

πŸ”₯1881: Thumb Fire (Michigan)

 

  • 1886: American Federation of Labor {AFL} created by Samuel Gompers. (white only union  jobs)

 

🩸1887: Thaibodaux Massacre

  • 1886-1960: 100 Years of Lynching
  • 1887: The Dawes Act

πŸ”₯1889: Great Seattle Fire

πŸ”₯1889: Santiago Canyon Fire (California)

 

  • 1898 - 1914: The Dawes Rolls Complete the reclassification of many indigenous people as "Negro"

 

🩸1898: Wilmington Massacre

πŸ”₯1894: Great Hinckley Fire (Minnesota)

🩸1906: Atlanta Massacre

⭐ 1908: The FBI is created 

🩸1908: Springfield Massacre

🩸1910: Slocum Massacre

  • 1912: Sinking of the Titanic 
  • 1914-1918: World War I

🩸1917: East St Louis Massacre

🩸1919: Chicago Massacre

🩸1919: Elaine Massacre

🩸1919: Washington Massacre

🩸1920: Ocoee Massacre

  • 1920: The Great Depression

🩸1921: Tulsa Massacre

🩸1923: Rosewood Massacre

🩸1943: Detroit Massacre

  • 1944: The G.I. Bill
  • 1956: Federal Highway Act
  • 1962: Migration & Refugee Assistance Act
  • 1965: Immigration & Nationality Act
  • 1966: Black Panther Party
  • 1980: Refugee Act

🩸1985: Philadelphia Massacre

  • 1990: The Diversity Immigrant Visa program, (The Green Card Lottery) 

🩸2015: Charleston Massacre
 

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