United States – Oklahoma
Horace Mann Bond (1904-1972)
Horace Mann Bond served as the first president of Fort Valley State College from 1939 to 1945 and president of...
Arthur Fletcher (1924-2005)
Arthur Fletcher is perhaps best known as the Father of Affirmative Action for his authorship of the Revised Philadelphia Plan,...
Silas Jefferson (1835-1913)
Silas Jefferson, also known as Ho-tul-ko-micco –“Wind Clan chief” — was born in 1835 at Taskigi Town (or Tuskegee) in...
Tullahassee Manual Labor School (1850-1924)
Tullahassee Manual Labor School was a boarding school for Creek freedmen funded by the Creek Nation in the Indian Territory....
Sarah Davis (1799-1886)
Sarah Davis was one of the leading free African Creek merchants who lived in the Creek Agency settlement, west of...
Opothleyohola’s Exodus to Kansas (Nov. 1861-Jan. 1862)
After a faction of the Creek tribe had negotiated and signed a treaty with the Confederacy in July 1861, a...
Jesse Franklin (1817-1882)
Jesse Franklin was an influential African Creek politician and minister who lived in the Creek Agency settlement in the years...
James Milton Turner (1840-1915)
James Milton Turner was an African American Missourian who was a prominent politician, education advocate, and diplomat in the years...
James Coody Johnson (1864-1927)
James Coody Johnson was an African Creek lawyer, politician and entrepreneur, and a leading voice for inclusion of African Americans...
