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This is a daily series by Jerry Mitchell of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today recounting historic moments in Civil Rights history.

On this day in 1865

On this day in 1865, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Order 15, giving each freed family 40 acres along the Atlantic Coast.

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