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Restoring the promise of freedom: honoring, preserving, and investing in Freedmen's Settlements.

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This resolution recognizes freedmen's settlements and supports preserving and investing in them. Freedmen's settlements were communities established before and after emancipation by free and formerly enslaved African Americans to create self-sustaining communities away from racial violence and economic discrimination.

Introduced

February 27, 2025

Policy Area

Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

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