We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power, by Caleb Gayle In A Kind of Madness

In A Kind of Madness

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We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power, by Caleb Gayle In A Kind of MadnessIn We Refuse to Forget, award winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. Thanks to the efforts of Creek leaders like Cow Tom, a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief, the U. S. government recognized Creek citizenship in 1866 for its Black members. Yet this equality was shredded in the 1970s when tribal