The organization you are referring to is the Freedmen's Bureau. Established in 1865, the Freedmen's Bureau was created to assist formerly enslaved people and impoverished white inhabitants in the South during the Reconstruction era following the Civil War. Its various initiatives included providing food, clothing, medical care, and education, as well as facilitating labor contracts and helping with land ownership. The Bureau played a significant role in helping to transition freed slaves to a life of autonomy and self-sufficiency.
President Lincoln and Congress agreed to
create this organization, whose purpose
was to assist in the advancement of freed
slaves and other poor southerners. They would
provide food, clothing and shelter to freed
African Americans. They also built schools and
helped people get land to farm. They even
helped freed slaves find jobs.
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