The Freedmen Files

Episode 10: Bettie Ligon Leader of a Movement


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This episode details the life and actions of Bettie Ligon, a Choctaw Freedwoman and a Chickasaw woman by blood. Her mother was once enslaved, thus the "Freedman" status, and her father was Robert H. Love, who signed the Treaty of 1866.  Hers is a story where she sought justice advocating for the equal treatment of children born with the blood of their fathers, but who were denied the rights of citizens by blood.  Her saga began a movement, and is still part of a movement that prevails to this day.

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The Freedmen FilesBy Angela Y. Walton-Raji