- Date:
- 1866
- Original Format:
- Fine Print Illustration
- Item#:
- 1860.0420
"The Misses Cooke's School Room, Freedman's Bureau"
This illustration from Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper shows young African-Americans in a classroom learning to read. In the spring of 1866 Congress enlarged the scope of the Freedmen's Bureau, empowering it among other things to build schools and to hire teachers.