Terry LIGON
| Introduction | Terry Ligon is a Historical Archaeologist, a Storyteller, and a teaching member at the Midwest African American Genealogical Institute Terry is a founding member of the African American Genealogical Society of Northern California-AAGSNC Mr. Ligon is a founding member of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen Association-CCFA, its mandate, is to educate, empower, engage and embrace the history of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen Terry’s areas of research are: • Congressional Record Serial Set • Dawes Land Allotment and Census Rolls and Plat Maps • Equity Case 7071, Bettie Ligon vs The Choctaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, and the Department of the Interior • Africans on the Trail of Tears • Communities of Chickasaw and Choctaw Freedmen, pre and post Oklahoma statehood. |
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| Interests | Chickasaw and Choctaw Freedmen History, Genealogy, Photography, Writing, Political Activist, Chess, Jazz, Storytelling |
| Favorite Music | Jazz. |
| Favorite Books | Kyballion, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, From Superman to Man, The Chickasaw Freedmen, a People Without a Country, As Things Fall Apart, Bourne Identity, My Life and an Era, A Stolen Legacy, Sex and Race Vols. 1-3, I Ching, The Art of War, The Prophet |
I want to know about a lot of little things, because there are a lot of little things to know a lot about.