# Oliver O. Howard — The Souls of Black Folk character guide

> Oliver O. Howard in The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Howard, Oliver Howard, General Howard

**First appearance:** 0004-ii-of-the-dawn-of-freedom

## Who they are

Union general and head of the Freedmen's Bureau, later founder of Howard University.

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