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Excerpt from Statement of Br. Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard Before the Committee on Education and Labor in Defense Against the Charges Presented by Hon. Fernando Wood:

This book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal benefits from the Civil War to the New Deal and, in the process,