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July 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Hi pall bearers were freedmen
Some GOOD news: The Supreme Court of the Muscogee Creek Nation has just ruled that Freedmen are tribal citizens!
July 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Some GOOD news: The Supreme Court of the Muscogee Creek Nation has just ruled that Freedmen are tribal citizens!
They’re restoring monuments to the Confederacy while monuments to freedmen are vandalized.
‘Depressing’: Vandalized Dallas landmark Freedman’s Cemetery now under curfew www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2...
‘Depressing’: Vandalized Dallas landmark Freedman’s Cemetery now under curfew
In light of recent reports of vandalization at the cemetery, the city has enforced a curfew and enhanced security at the site.
www.dallasnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
They’re restoring monuments to the Confederacy while monuments to freedmen are vandalized.
AND WE'LL FILL OUR VACANT RANKS WITH A MILLION FREEDMEN MORE!
September 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
AND WE'LL FILL OUR VACANT RANKS WITH A MILLION FREEDMEN MORE!
Two weeks ago today, the Supreme Court of Muscogee Nation affirmed the citizenship rights of freedmen descendants. After decades of disenfranchisement, freedmen descendants are now eligible for tribal citizenship. How did we get here? Here’s a little history lesson 🧵:
August 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Two weeks ago today, the Supreme Court of Muscogee Nation affirmed the citizenship rights of freedmen descendants. After decades of disenfranchisement, freedmen descendants are now eligible for tribal citizenship. How did we get here? Here’s a little history lesson 🧵:
“They broke the treaty, they never gave citizenship to their Freedmen. So up until statehood, Chickasaw Freedmen had no country; they were never citizens of any nation," Walton-Raji, co-founder of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen Association, said.
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June 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“They broke the treaty, they never gave citizenship to their Freedmen. So up until statehood, Chickasaw Freedmen had no country; they were never citizens of any nation," Walton-Raji, co-founder of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen Association, said.
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hey dort what was the freedmen bureau doing huh
January 8, 2026 at 2:53 AM
hey dort what was the freedmen bureau doing huh
Cherokee Film Productions, the Cherokee Nation’s production company, has released a first-look trailer for an upcoming feature-length documentary focused on Cherokee Freedmen.
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Cherokee Film Productions Teases Documentary on Cherokee Freedmen With First-Look Trailer
Cherokee Film Productions, the Cherokee Nation's production company, has released a first-look trailer for an upcoming feature-length documentary focused on Cherokee Freedmen.
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March 6, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Cherokee Film Productions, the Cherokee Nation’s production company, has released a first-look trailer for an upcoming feature-length documentary focused on Cherokee Freedmen.
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The promises of our ancestors being fulfilled.
#MuscogeeNation #Freedmen
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#MuscogeeNation #Freedmen
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Muscogee (Creek) Nation Supreme Court ends apartheid, restores Freedmen citizenship
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation Supreme Court ruled in favor of citizenship for Creek Freedmen Descendants in historic case.
theblackwallsttimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The promises of our ancestors being fulfilled.
#MuscogeeNation #Freedmen
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#MuscogeeNation #Freedmen
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“Are we, as a Nation, bound to treaty promises made so many years ago? Today we answer in the affirmative, because that is what Mvskoke law demands," the Justices wrote in Citizenship Board of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation v. Rhonda K Grayson
#Freedmen
#Pinks
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#Freedmen
#Pinks
theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
Muscogee (Creek) Nation Supreme Court ends apartheid, restores Freedmen citizenship
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation Supreme Court ruled in favor of citizenship for Creek Freedmen Descendants in historic case.
theblackwallsttimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“Are we, as a Nation, bound to treaty promises made so many years ago? Today we answer in the affirmative, because that is what Mvskoke law demands," the Justices wrote in Citizenship Board of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation v. Rhonda K Grayson
#Freedmen
#Pinks
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#Freedmen
#Pinks
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Rutherford B. Hayes deserves far more scorn than he gets today for selling out the Southern freedmen.
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Rutherford B. Hayes deserves far more scorn than he gets today for selling out the Southern freedmen.
Freedmen descendants, who oppose the measure, fear it will be used to further erode rights for Choctaw Freedmen descendants. Since 1866, all Five Tribes (Cherokee, Muscogee [Creek], Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole)...
#Pinks
#Freedmen
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#Pinks
#Freedmen
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Choctaw Freedmen call for federal protection ahead of tribal vote
Choctaw Freedmen descendants want U.S. Secretary of the Interior to reject a ballot measure that would change the Choctaw Nation Constitution.
theblackwallsttimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Freedmen descendants, who oppose the measure, fear it will be used to further erode rights for Choctaw Freedmen descendants. Since 1866, all Five Tribes (Cherokee, Muscogee [Creek], Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole)...
#Pinks
#Freedmen
theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/07/07/c...
#Pinks
#Freedmen
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Cherokee Film Productions, the Cherokee Nation’s production company, has released a first-look trailer for an upcoming feature-length documentary focused on Cherokee Freedmen.
redpopnews.com/cherokee-fil...
redpopnews.com/cherokee-fil...
Cherokee Film Productions Teases Documentary on Cherokee Freedmen With First-Look Trailer
Cherokee Film Productions, the Cherokee Nation's production company, has released a first-look trailer for an upcoming feature-length documentary focused on Cherokee Freedmen.
redpopnews.com
March 6, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Cherokee Film Productions, the Cherokee Nation’s production company, has released a first-look trailer for an upcoming feature-length documentary focused on Cherokee Freedmen.
redpopnews.com/cherokee-fil...
redpopnews.com/cherokee-fil...
The Muscogee Creek Nation is beginning to change tribal policy in response to a Muscogee Supreme Court order requiring the tribe to grant citizenship to Freedmen descendants.
www.oklahoman.com/story/news/t...
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Muscogee Nation moving to grant citizenship to Freedmen descendants
The change to tribal policy is in response to a court order requiring the tribe to grant citizenship to Freedmen descendants.
www.oklahoman.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The Muscogee Creek Nation is beginning to change tribal policy in response to a Muscogee Supreme Court order requiring the tribe to grant citizenship to Freedmen descendants.
www.oklahoman.com/story/news/t...
www.oklahoman.com/story/news/t...
After winning a historic court case upholding their right to tribal citizenship, Muscogee freedmen are fighting for the ruling to be enforced.
Creek Freedmen file for Muscogee Supreme Court to enforce citizenship ruling
Muscogee Freedmen have asked the tribal nation’s Supreme Court to enforce its ruling granting them citizenship after the nation’s executive orders have prevented the issuing of new citizenship cards.
www.kosu.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
After winning a historic court case upholding their right to tribal citizenship, Muscogee freedmen are fighting for the ruling to be enforced.
Image of FREEDMEN VOTING, 1867 Freedmen voting in New Orleans in 1867.🖌️
January 18, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Image of FREEDMEN VOTING, 1867 Freedmen voting in New Orleans in 1867.🖌️
A little-discussed element of the Mississippi Vagrancy Law, the most famous of the postemancipation Black Codes, criminalized "usually associating... on terms of equality" with Black Mississippians. The law literally prohibited treating Black residents as equals.
February 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A little-discussed element of the Mississippi Vagrancy Law, the most famous of the postemancipation Black Codes, criminalized "usually associating... on terms of equality" with Black Mississippians. The law literally prohibited treating Black residents as equals.
By refusing to provide evidence for his historical claims or data/details to understand his moral argument, Wurman traffics in the same vague bigotry used against every immigrant group to ever reach America’s shores. And it is the same rhetorical move made against Black freedmen in Reconstruction.
July 18, 2026 at 12:15 PM
By refusing to provide evidence for his historical claims or data/details to understand his moral argument, Wurman traffics in the same vague bigotry used against every immigrant group to ever reach America’s shores. And it is the same rhetorical move made against Black freedmen in Reconstruction.
There's also the delight in perversely misreading history that really isn't contested or poorly understood.
e.g. Thomas's insistence that in the 1860s, "freedmen" was "a formerly race-neutral category"
e.g. Thomas's insistence that in the 1860s, "freedmen" was "a formerly race-neutral category"
I think it’s hard to understate the extent to which two-century old history is incomplete, contradictory, and subject to multiple interpretations—and thus fundamentally incapable of providing the sort of clear guidance Originalists claim that it can.
The court's new hyper-literal originalism is producing a weird jurisprudence in which some cases turn on two competing, highly subjective, highly-distilled, multi-century historical narratives. The narrative that gets 5 votes then becomes "Official U.S. History" for every similar case that follows.
June 18, 2024 at 12:41 PM
There's also the delight in perversely misreading history that really isn't contested or poorly understood.
e.g. Thomas's insistence that in the 1860s, "freedmen" was "a formerly race-neutral category"
e.g. Thomas's insistence that in the 1860s, "freedmen" was "a formerly race-neutral category"
The Freedmen and Southern Society Project is a terrific resource and everyone should use it!
As we begin the 1st few weeks of classes, a reminder that FSSP hosts a large collection of classroom-ready documents related to slavery & its destruction. These first-hand testimonies of enslaved people, Black soldiers, & officials give life to lessons on slavery & the contested arc of emancipation.
Freedmen and Southern Society Project: Selected Documents
A selection of documents from Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867
www.freedmen.umd.edu
September 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The Freedmen and Southern Society Project is a terrific resource and everyone should use it!
The Civil Rights Cases struck down the 1875 Civil Rights Act.
Harris narrowed the Ku Klux Klan Act, holding that it couldn't reach private conspiracies to violate the rights of freedmen and -women.
Harris narrowed the Ku Klux Klan Act, holding that it couldn't reach private conspiracies to violate the rights of freedmen and -women.
April 29, 2026 at 3:34 PM
The Civil Rights Cases struck down the 1875 Civil Rights Act.
Harris narrowed the Ku Klux Klan Act, holding that it couldn't reach private conspiracies to violate the rights of freedmen and -women.
Harris narrowed the Ku Klux Klan Act, holding that it couldn't reach private conspiracies to violate the rights of freedmen and -women.
Fucking slavecatcher patrols, the same way they'd abduct freedmen from the North and bring them back down south. What's old is new again.
April 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Fucking slavecatcher patrols, the same way they'd abduct freedmen from the North and bring them back down south. What's old is new again.
This is a living project: “40 Acres” also provides a vital search tool for researchers and genealogists. Search the documents for yourself: freedmen.motherjones.com/search
Freedmen Search | Public Integrity
freedmen.motherjones.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is a living project: “40 Acres” also provides a vital search tool for researchers and genealogists. Search the documents for yourself: freedmen.motherjones.com/search
for those unfamiliar: there already was a faction of politicians known by the moniker "radical Republicans" and they were known mostly for their uncompromising opposition to slavery, support for pro labor legislation, and passage of 1860s Civil Rights legislation that empowered freedmen
August 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
for those unfamiliar: there already was a faction of politicians known by the moniker "radical Republicans" and they were known mostly for their uncompromising opposition to slavery, support for pro labor legislation, and passage of 1860s Civil Rights legislation that empowered freedmen