Historically, some Creoles-such as Jelly Roll Morton-
vehementally rejected being categorized as African American {Black}.

There is still a debate among people of Creole descent as to whether they and historical Creole persons should be identified as African American or as Creole. For instance, here's another page from the frenchcreole.com website:

http://www.frenchcreoles.com/CreoleSurvival/henriettedellilepetition/henriettedellilepetition.htm

That page starts with the question: "What should it be 'Creole of Color' or 'African American'?" That page then write:

"Henriette Dellile has been nominated for Sainthood by the Catholic Church and has been called the First African American in the United States to be chosen for Sainthood.

We as "Creoles" again are being Denied our place in History & our Cultural Heritage! We have stated again & again that we are not African Americans but "Creoles" & again the church, above all people has chosen to label us as such! The arguments, issues and petition below are strong reasons why this Cultural Genocide must stop. Study the issues and print the petition so you may support our cause by signing this petition!"

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That petition decries what its authors consider to be the miscategorization of Henriette Dellile as African American, based on the one drop of African blood ruling. Here's an excerpt of that petition:

"...the Sisters of the Holy Family in their misrepresentation of Mother Henriette DeLille, operating under a strictly political stance, and in order to give all of her birth and sainthood credit to the AFRICAN-AMERICANS, are using the ONE-DROP POLICY RULE of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, which has been outlawed legally as far back as 1975, when before that time held that ONE DROP OF AFRICAN blood an AFRICAN did make. So as you can see that as of 1989, the ONE DROP POLICY was outlawed prior thereto.

We are also aware that the ONE-DROP POLICY RULE only
came to existence many years after the birth of Mother Henriette DeLille, and perhaps even years after her death. That rule came about almost 30 years after the Civil War of 1862 - 1864 when the South lost the Civil War and slavery was abolished; and the South therefore wanted to give vengeance to all who had any blood of the slaves in their veins.

To further that vengeance, the United States Government and especially the Southern States, legislated the racial identity of all Native-Born French Creoles to that of Negro and Black. Racial identity is something inherent to an individuald and should not be legislated by anyone. If one would check the U.S. Archive records, one will find that before the 1900 Census, all Creoles were listed as "M" for Mulatto (meaning multiracial) and all African-Americans were listed as "B" for Black.

We do not deny that Mother DeLille has African blood as part of her ancestry and we are proud of that, and we find no problem with that, but then that was only one portion of her ancestry. Therefore Mother Henriette DeLille by virtue of her ethnic makeup was of multiracial origin. And when she was born, she was automatically a Gens de Colour Libre, and in Louisiana that identification meant that you were not just African but of various ethnic origins and came under the meaning of being FRENCH-CREOLE. To wit: A person born in the New World of European and African ancestry - native to the place. In other words A FRENCH-CREOLE-AMERICAN.

The definition of a French- Creole-American states that the person has French, Spanish, African and Indian ancestry along with other various European ancestry as the case may be. In the mid 1700's and mid 1800's these various racial groups formed family unions and had offsprings which were multiracial in origin"...

http://www.frenchcreoles.com/CreoleSurvival/henriettedellilepetition/henriettedellilepetition2.htm

[Capitolizations are as found in the text of the petition]