Staking a Claim Quotes

“As long as it didn't cost white anything American officials were absolutely determined to see justice done for the black Indian. The United States took nearly a century to grant the millions of freedman in its own borders the same rights as Creek freedmen enjoyed after 1866. On an economic level adoption into the tribe's communal land trust proved far more beneficial to blacks than any program ever devised by the federal government—even in modern times.”
― Jonathan D. Greenberg, Staking a Claim: Jake Simmons, Jr. and the Making of an African-American Oil Dynasty