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Book Synopsis Boley: Oklahoma’s Famous Black Town by : James Shaw Sr.
Download or read book Boley: Oklahoma’s Famous Black Town written by James Shaw Sr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boley: Oklahoma's Famous Black Town is a compelling introduction to the untold story of one of America's most influential Black towns. James Shaw retells the story in a way that even a novice of history can appreciate and embrace. It is a journey down memory lane, the details of which have been recorded with both precision and decorum.
Book Synopsis Acres of Aspiration by : Hannibal B. Johnson
Download or read book Acres of Aspiration written by Hannibal B. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect, pioneers such as Edward P. McCabe championed the idea of Oklahoma as an all-Black state. And all-Black towns proliferated there. Some sixty all-Black towns, along with Tulsa's Greenwood District, bear witness to the deep creativity and incredible human spirit of the people who built them.
Book Synopsis All Men Up by : Melissa Nicole Stuckey
Download or read book All Men Up written by Melissa Nicole Stuckey and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation argues that Boley, Oklahoma, which during the height of its existence was the largest black town in the United States, was an important location in the struggle for African-American civil rights from the Progressive Era through the 1930s. Oklahoma was home to more black towns than any other state in the nation and black Oklahoman voting rights activism, much of it centered in Boley, led to United States Supreme Court decisions in 1915 and 1939 against "grandfather clause" election laws. In spite of these facts, there exists no scholarship examining the role of Boley or any of Oklahoma's black towns as centers of African-American activism or as factors in the early civil rights movement. By shedding new light on the ways black Oklahomans fought disfranchisement, my work begins to fill this void.
Book Synopsis A History of Boley, Oklahoma by : Velma Dolphin-Ashley
Download or read book A History of Boley, Oklahoma written by Velma Dolphin-Ashley and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Black Towns by : Norman L. Crockett
Download or read book The Black Towns written by Norman L. Crockett and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Appomattox to World War I, blacks continued their quest for a secure position in the American system. The problem was how to be both black and American—how to find acceptance, or even toleration, in a society in which the boundaries of normative behavior, the values, and the very definition of what it meant to be an American were determined and enforced by whites. A few black leaders proposed self-segregation inside the United States within the protective confines of an all-black community as one possible solution. The Black-town idea reached its peak in the fifty years after the civil War; at least sixty Black communities were settled between 1865 and 1915. Norman L. Crockett has focused on the formation, growth and failure of five such communities. The towns and the date of their settlement are: Nicodemus, Kansas (1879), established at the time of the Black exodus from the South; Mound Bayou, Mississippi (1897), perhaps the most prominent black town because of its close ties to Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Institute: Langston, Oklahoma (1891), visualized by one of its promoters as the nucleus for the creation of an all-Black state in the West; and Clearview (1903) and Boley (1904), in Oklahoma, twin communities in the Creek Nation which offer the opportunity observe certain aspects of Indian-Black relations in this area. The role of Black people in town promotion and settlement has long been a neglected area in western and urban history, Crockett looks at patterns of settlement and leadership, government, politics, economics, and the problems of isolation versus interaction with the white communities. He also describes family life, social life, and class structure within the Black towns. Crockett looks closely at the rhetoric and behavior of Black people inside the limits of tehir own community—isolated from the domination of whites and freed from the daily reinforcement of their subordinate rank in the larger society. He finds that, long before “Black is beautiful” entered the American vernacular, Black-town residents exhibited a strong sense of race price. The reader observes in microcosm Black attitudes about many aspects of American life as Crockett ties the Black-town experience to the larger question of race relations at the turn of the century. This volume also explains the failure of the Black-town dream. Crockett cites discrimination, lack of capital, and the many forces at work in the local, regional, and national economies. He shows how the racial and town-building experiement met its demise as the residents of all-Black communities became both economically and psychologically trapped. This study adds valuable new material to the literature on Black history, and makes a significant contribution to American social and urban history, community studies, and the regional history of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.
Book Synopsis A History of Boley, Oklahoma by : Rosa J. Parker
Download or read book A History of Boley, Oklahoma written by Rosa J. Parker and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Boley, Oklahoma, to 1915 by : Larrie Lance Elahi
Download or read book A History of Boley, Oklahoma, to 1915 written by Larrie Lance Elahi and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boley, a Negro Town in the West by : Booker T. Washington
Download or read book Boley, a Negro Town in the West written by Booker T. Washington and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Self Made written by and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booker T. Washington - educator, orator, presidential adviser, and founder of Tuskegee University - wrote on numerous occasions about his reverence and admiration for the town of Boley, Oklahoma. In 1908 he penned it was a place that "represents a dawning race consciousness, a wholesome desire to do something to make the race respected?" Founded in 1903 on land gifted to its first settlers by Creek Freedwoman Abigail Barnett McCormick, Boley was the largest of more than fifty all-Black towns established in Oklahoma. Against overwhelming odds, it remains today one of only thirteen all-Black towns still existent in the state. Since its inception, this town of less than two square miles has been home to some of the world's most imaginative and ambitious entrepreneurs, civic leaders, educators, athletes, and agricultural innovators, whose efforts have been internationally recognized. They are the descendants of dreamers turned doers; a community endowed with an indomitable spirit of perseverance and pride. These essays, drawn from interviews with former and current Boleyites, are brief glimpses into the lives of men, women, and children: keepers of a kingdom built in the Oklahoma dust. Self-made.
Book Synopsis No Place Like Home by : Hannibal B. Johnson
Download or read book No Place Like Home written by Hannibal B. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel describes the life of a twelve-year-old boy in 1920 Boley, Oklahoma.
Book Synopsis Before the Land Run by : Cheryl A. Coleman
Download or read book Before the Land Run written by Cheryl A. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Black Oklahomans by : Arthur L. Tolson
Download or read book The Black Oklahomans written by Arthur L. Tolson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Arthur Lincoln Tolson traces the role of Blacks in Oklahoma over approximately four hundred and thirty-one years of history." --from back cover.
Book Synopsis Black History in Oklahoma by : Kaye Moulton Teall
Download or read book Black History in Oklahoma written by Kaye Moulton Teall and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black Towns, Black Futures by : Karla Slocum
Download or read book Black Towns, Black Futures written by Karla Slocum and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla Slocum shows that the appeal of these towns is more than their past. Drawing on interviews and observations of town life spanning several years, Slocum reveals that people from diverse backgrounds are still attracted to the communities because of the towns' remarkable history as well as their racial identity and rurality. But that attraction cuts both ways. Tourists visit to see living examples of Black success in America, while informal predatory lenders flock to exploit the rural Black economies. In Black towns, there are developers, return migrants, rodeo spectators, and gentrifiers, too. Giving us a complex window into Black town and rural life, Slocum ultimately makes the case that these communities are places for affirming, building, and dreaming of Black community success even as they contend with the sometimes marginality of Black and rural America.
Book Synopsis We Too Sing America by : Paul Lehman
Download or read book We Too Sing America written by Paul Lehman and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I've Been Here All the While by : Alaina E. Roberts
Download or read book I've Been Here All the While written by Alaina E. Roberts and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.
Book Synopsis A Great Moral and Social Force by : Tim Todd
Download or read book A Great Moral and Social Force written by Tim Todd and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication offers a historical consideration of Black banking in the United States by focusing on some of the key individuals, banks and communities. While it is in no way a comprehensive history, it does include background that is essential to understanding each financial institution, its time, the events that led to its creation and the community of which it was not only a vital part, but very often a leader. Much of this history frames the world we find today.
