HRES 173 · 119th CongressIn Committeecongress.gov ↗
Restoring the promise of freedom: honoring, preserving, and investing in Freedmen's Settlements.
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AI plain-language summaryThis 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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