Our Proposal

The Freedmen's Bureau unchained the intellectual shackles that created the intellectual barrier that greatly correlated with racial status. During the time period following the 13th amendment the intellectual boundaries still separated white and black Americans. Which is why is the painting I made, we chose to show a hand to symbolize the break from the 19th century norms of education. The hand is in red to symbolize resilience, and the constant struggle for equality. I utilized the negative space and filled it with academic phrases and questions to display the rising equality. While America isn't perfect, we are still making, sewing a quilt of equality.

Dear Congress,

We believe that the Freedman's Bureau Education deserves a memorial. We believe that it should be a statue, one of an opened book with a hand sprouting from it. It should be in the library of Congress. It would signify education and represent how much the Freedman's Bureau has helped out educate society back in the 1800's.

The Freedman's Bureau was a project towards educating newly freed black people that Congress created. It established schools all over the south and helped re-integrate the newly freed into society. They gave the freed slaves housing and food while educating them on the laws of society. The Freedman's Bureau has caused education as we know it today to have evolved so much, and we also have had a black president. Over the past centuries, African Americans have become more racially accepted now because of the Freedman's Bureau. Because of this education given to the black people, today's education is now far better than it was back then. By including people of color in education, we have discovered far more that we would have without including people of color.

We can also print smaller Lithographs and all of the money can go to supporting Black Lives Matter and supporting education. Each one can be 5 dollars, and 3 of the 5 dollars will go to Black Lives Matter and the education that poor families cannot afford. Just like the Freedman's Bureau did with the poor southerners that were struggling after the Civil War.

This is why we believe that the Freedman's Bureau should have its own memorial in the National Library of Congress.