Forty Acres and a Mule:

ID: 2852 ~ Source: Dixon, Jessy. Interviewed by Robert Darden, August 7, 2009, in Chicago, IL. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. Access full interview here.
This file appears in: Juneteenth

Legendary American gospel singer Jessy Dixon describes inspirations for his music, including the underground railroad, Juneteenth, and the government’s failure to provide freed enslaved people with forty acres and a mule, as promised in Union General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order 15.

This file appears in: Juneteenth

By Allie Roberts
On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, heard the news of their freedom. More than two years earlier, President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation to establish the freedom of enslaved people in Confederate States…