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“How much Negro wealth went into the building of Oklahoma?
It is only exceeded by the sweat, toil, and tears of … slaves’ free labor of more than 250 years!”
It is only exceeded by the sweat, toil, and tears of … slaves’ free labor of more than 250 years!”
Buck Franklin COLBERT, “My Life and an Era”
July 25, 1889: J. Milton Turner has been paid one-half of the fee of $15,000 allowed for securing the passage of he Cherokee freedmen indemnity act for $75,000. The balance is held pending the investigation of Col. E. C. Boudinot’s claim for one-half the fee
July 26, 1894: Chickasaw Nation; The act in congress to adopt the negroes of the Chickasaw Nation is given
July 26, 1894: Editorial; Americanism and Capital
July 25, 1895: Freedmen enrollment; Cherokee Indians, payments
July 27, 1897: The freedmen payment at Fort Gibson is made in the old slate covered rock building in which the strip payment was made three years ago and both the old settlers and emigrant payments were made to the Cherokee in 1851 and 1852. This building has had a great deal of history made within its walls
July 29, 1897: R. V. Belt attorney for the Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen, says the act passed by the Choctaw Council, May 21, 1883, adopted the freedmen as citizens
July 27, 1898: Negro Citizens meet in Oklahoma City as the Protective League of Oklahoma
July 28, 1898: A letter from the Secretary of the Interior stating that the Cherokee freedmen’s $400,000 matter has been referred to the commissioner of Indian Affairs with the direction to make further investigation
July 26, 1900: Civil War Veterans reunion Bristow
July 27, 1900: Enrollment; Sallisaw, W. T. Hutchings, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Baugh
July 30, 1901: Report of W. J. McConnell, United States Indian Inspector regarding Samuel H. Mayes refusing investigation of the $400,000, (stolen) from the Cherokee freedmen under Mayes’ Chieftainship
August 08, 1901: L. B. Bell, W. W. Hastings, James S. Davenport, J. L. Baugh and J. C. Starr, attorneys for the Cherokee Nation, have opened an office in the south rooms of the Hill Building for the purpose of preparing the papers in defense of the nation in the freedmen cases heard before the Dawes Commission. They are to remain here until September 01, at which time the Commission begins again at Fort Gibson
August 08, 1901: L. B. Bell, W. W. Hastings, James S. Davenport, J. L. Baugh and J. C. Starr, attorneys for the Cherokee Nation, have opened an office in the south rooms of the Hill Building for the purpose of preparing the papers in defense of the nation in the freedmen cases heard before the Dawes Commission. They are to remain here until September 01, at which time the Commission begins again at Fort Gibson
July 31, 1902: Since the recent row at Blackwell, Oklahoma over the importation of a family of negroes, Lawton and Norman have posted notices on all roads leading into these towns warning negroes that their presence will not be tolerated
July 28, 1905: In Muskogee a meeting on Indian Territory and Statehood Convention
July 25, 1907: Segregation in Sapulpa
July 28, 1911: An editorial on the negro voter
July 25, 1912: Statements explaining Senator Robert L. Owen’s viewpoint relative to the status of Negroes
July 26, 1912: Attorney General West will go to Muskogee Friday and represent the state in proceeding instituted before U. S. Judge Ralph K. Campbell, to compel the registration of negroes in eastern counties, without regard to their qualifications under the “Grandfather Clause.”
