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Former schoolteacher George Ruby was an administrator and traveling agent for this organization, and
 J.W. Alvord served as an inspector. This organization used a textbook that placed particular emphasis on
 avoiding bitterness and forgiving enemies. Its head was a man known as the "Christian General," who is
 the namesake of a Washington, D.C. university that is the alma mater of Thurgood Marshall. That man was
 Oliver O. Howard. Andrew Johnson's attempts to veto funding for it were one of the sticking points
 between him and Radical Republicans, but it was eventually dissolved under Grant. For 10 points, name
 this organization founded to help former slaves during Reconstruction.
Former schoolteacher George Ruby was an administrator and traveling agent for this organization, and
 J.W. Alvord served as an inspector.
{Freedmen’s Bureau}