Phil "Pompey" Fixico

Founder/President of the Seminroon Historical Society.

Private-Sector-Partner for the National Underground Railroad/Network to Freedom.

Phil "Pompey" Fixico is an aspiring Seminole Maroon Descendant and Activist who learned about his native identity at the age of 52. He shares his journey and life’s mission in this lively interview facilitated by Ketu Oladuwa and Kelsey Greene.

Pompey’s Bio (in his own words):

“Racially I am an African-Native-American. Culturally, I'm an aspiring Seminole Maroon Descendant and Activist but to the People of America that see me on the street. I'm just another flavor of BLACK. Hopefully, this conversation will help to change that. I'm 74 years old born in Los Angeles, California in the Central Avenue "NEGRO" Community. My identity was stolen while I was still in my mother's stomach...she stole it...Bless her heart, she had her reasons as a married woman pregnant by a married man. So she bought a name for me from her husband who was in jail. This solved her problem but it left me with a lifelong identity crisis . I did finally discovered the truth, at 52 years of age. When I learned that I was a: Seminole Maroon Descendant, I then became became an Activist.”

References

Books

• IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas

• Fort Mose and the Story of the Man Who Build the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America

• A Man Called Horse: John Horse And The Black Seminole Underground Railroad

Interview

Phil Fixico Underground Railroad Collection (URR) Interviewed by Ryan Morini

Text

• Mixed Race in the Seminole Nation

• Maroon Women Chamber of Cooperation booklet

• The Proud Legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers

Personal Website

https://refixico.wordpress.com

Other Websites

NPS Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program

Poetry

MAMA America with music

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