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Mar 21, 2017 · By presenting her case along with the enrollment cards and land records above, a larger part of the story was known. Lucinda Davis was a strong Creek woman, and she was a strong African descended woman. She held strongly to her culture, and her mother tongue which was the Muscogee language.
- Angela Y. Walton-Raji
Feb 12, 2021 · Decades after the Civil War, an 89-nine-year-old Lucinda Davis recalled her life as a slave in Indian Territory during the tumultuous 1860s. She had a Creek Indian owner and lived in the Creek Territory, located in the eastern portion of present-day Oklahoma.
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education occurred after a hard-fought, multi-year campaign to persuade all nine justices to overturn the “separate but equal” doctrine that their predecessors had endorsed in the Court’s infamous 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
Lucinda Davis (c. 1848-after 1937) was a slave who grew up in the Creek Indian culture. She spoke the Muskogee Creek language fluently. The main information source was from an interview in the summer of 1937, at which time she was guessed to be 89 years old.
NICHOLAS ALEXANDER DAVIS, Petitioner, v. TOMMY SHARP, INTERIM WARDEN, OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY, Respondent. On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. THOMAS D. HIRD, Counsel of Record. MICHAEL W. LIEBERMAN.
In the 1830s, the United States removed the Creek Indian people, including their enslaved African Creeks, from their traditional homelands in Alabama and Georgia to Indian Territory, now known as Oklahoma. This removal is known as the Trail of Tears. We stress this often-omitted piece of history.
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On July 9, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the case McGirt v. Oklahoma that much of the state of Oklahoma falls within an Indian reservation, potentially one of the most consequential legal decisions for Native Americans in decades that could have far-reaching implications.
