Oliver O. Howard

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Major General Oliver O. Howard served as director of the Freedmen's Bureau, an agency that provided social welfare to formerly enslaved African Americans from 1865 until 1872. Operations of the bureau ceased in Georgia in 1870.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Oliver O. Howard

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