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THE HISTORY OF TE X A S

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Chapter 6

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An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees ~ primary source document that created the Freedmen’s Bureau.
Lone Star History Links, Selected Texas History Primary Source Documents was compiled by Roger A. Griffin, Ph.D, Professor of History Emeritus, Austin, Texas. These links, almost without exception, are to documents having to do with events and movements (mostly of a military character) which occurred within the boundaries of the state of Texas.
Texas State Library & Archives provides this web page entitled “Portraits of Texas Governors: War, Ruin and Reconstruction” with biographies and primary sources for the gubernatorial era, 1866 to 1876.
Texas State Library & Archives provides this web page entitled “The 1860s: Reconstruction” and “The 1870s: Representation” with biographies of the ten African Americans who were elected to serve in the 1868-9 constitutional convention that included George T. Ruby and Matthew Gaines. Links also to Freedmen’s Bureau and Union League as well as the constitutional convention of 1875.
“The World Turned Upside Down: Reconstruction in Texas” ~ includes various discussions: The Myth vs. the Reality of Reconstruction, Wartime Reconstruction, Postwar Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction, Undoing Reconstruction, and Enduring Impacts of Reconstruction in Texas.