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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 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 Impact by : Rochelle Stephney-Roberson
Download or read book Impact written by Rochelle Stephney-Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When librarian-educator Rochelle Stephney-Roberson recognized that many young people in Oklahoma knew little about the state's black history, she set out to do something about it. Her hard work has resulted in the newest release from Oklahoma City publisher Forty-sixth Star Press. Full of never before seen photographs and entries about people and events, the book chronicles the contributions of individuals and groups who have had an impact not only on Oklahoma but on the nation at large. Organized chronologically, Impact: Blacks in Oklahoma History includes chapters on: Oklahoma Territory, Tulsa Race Riots, Buffalo Soldiers, and All Black Towns. Included are also stories gleaned from personal interviews with friends and families of: Clara Luper, Joe Carter, Wayman Tisdale, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, Big Al Downing, Roscoe Dunjee, Selmon Brothers, and Bass Reeves. The Activities Edition contains multiple choice, T/F, fill-in-the-blank, and word finder puzzles useful to school teachers and homeschoolers." --
Book Synopsis The Color of the Land by : David A. Chang
Download or read book The Color of the Land written by David A. Chang and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives of the American past, revealing how identities--race, nation, and class--took new forms in struggles over the creation of different systems of property. Conflicts were unleashed by a series of sweeping changes: the forced "removal" of the Creeks from their homeland to Oklahoma in the 1830s, the transformation of the Creeks' enslaved black population into landed black Creek citizens after the Civil War, the imposition of statehood and private landownership at the turn of the twentieth century, and the entrenchment of a sharecropping economy and white supremacy in the following decades. In struggles over land, wealth, and power, Oklahomans actively defined and redefined what it meant to be Native American, African American, or white. By telling this story, David Chang contributes to the history of racial construction and nationalism as well as to southern, western, and Native American history.
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 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 A Fluid Frontier by : Karolyn Smardz Frost
Download or read book A Fluid Frontier written by Karolyn Smardz Frost and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of the Underground Railroad as well as those in borderland studies will appreciate the interdisciplinary mix and unique contributions of this volume.
Book Synopsis The Blacks in Oklahoma by : Jimmie Lewis Franklin
Download or read book The Blacks in Oklahoma written by Jimmie Lewis Franklin and published by Newcomers to a New Land. This book was released on 1980 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New Land that described and analyzed the role of the major ethnic groups that have contributed to the history of Oklahoma. The series was part of Oklahoma Image, a project sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Oklahoma Library Association and made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In response to numerous requests, the University of Oklahoma Press has reissued all ten volumes in the series. Published unaltered from the original editions, these books continue to have both historical and cultural value for reasons the series editorial committee stated as well. ?Though not large in number as compared to those in some states, immigrants from various European nations left a marked impact on Oklahoma's history. As in the larger United States, they worked in many economic and social roles that enriched the state's life. Indians have played a crucial part in Oklahoma's history, even to giving the state her name. Blacks and Mexicans have also fulfilled a special set of roles, and will continue to affect Oklahoma's future. The history of each of these groups is unique, well worth remembering to both their heirs and to other people in the state and nation. Their stories come from the past, but continue on the future.”
Book Synopsis The Black Oklahomans by : Arthur Lincoln Tolson
Download or read book The Black Oklahomans written by Arthur Lincoln Tolson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Growing Up with the Country by : Kendra Taira Field
Download or read book Growing Up with the Country written by Kendra Taira Field and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field’s epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom’s first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces their journey out of the South to Indian Territory, where they participated in the development of black and black Indian towns and settlements. When statehood, oil speculation, and Jim Crow segregation imperiled their lives and livelihoods, these formerly enslaved men and women again chose emigration. Some migrants launched a powerful back-to-Africa movement, while others moved on to Canada and Mexico. Their lives and choices deepen and widen the roots of the Great Migration. Interweaving black, white, and Indian histories, Field’s beautifully wrought narrative explores how ideas about race and color powerfully shaped the pursuit of freedom.
Book Synopsis Impact: Blacks in Oklahoma History by : Rochelle Stephney-Roberson
Download or read book Impact: Blacks in Oklahoma History written by Rochelle Stephney-Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impact: Blacks in Oklahoma History (second edition) includes updated information from the first edition and has expanded the content in this resource book. Many events and people in the African American communities of the forty-sixth state of the union are featured. It follows chronologically events from before the Trail of Tears and includes information about the Oklahoma Land Runs, Tulsa Race Massacre and the Oklahoma City Sit-Ins. A large amount of the information included was gained from personal interviews of individuals who made important civil rights contributions to state history. The book is rich with photographs helping to tell the story of the impact African Americans have had on the state and on the nation. Included are chapters on people of African Descent who were a part of the Five Civilized Tribes, civil rights leader Clara Luper, baseball great Joe Carter, basketball icon and musician Wayman Tisdale, as well as Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, Roscoe Dunjee, All-Black Towns, the Buffalo Soldiers, and Desegregation. This book also includes educational activity pages following each chapter and answer sheets for each activity.
Book Synopsis The Great Oklahoma Swindle by : Russell Cobb
Download or read book The Great Oklahoma Swindle written by Russell Cobb and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unflinching look at Oklahoma's singular past helpfully fills in lesser-known aspects of the historical record.--Publishers Weekly An Oklahoma Bestseller 2021 Director's Award in the Oklahoma Book Awards Board of Directors Award for special merit Look down as you buzz across America, and Oklahoma looks like another "flyover state." A closer inspection, however, reveals one of the most tragic, fascinating, and unpredictable places in the United States. Over the span of a century, Oklahoma gave birth to movements for an African American homeland, a vibrant Socialist Party, armed rebellions of radical farmers, and an insurrection by a man called Crazy Snake. In the same era, the state saw numerous oil booms, one of which transformed the small town of Tulsa into the "oil capital of the world." Add to the chaos one of the nation's worst episodes of racial violence, a statewide takeover by the Ku Klux Klan, and the rise of a paranoid far-right agenda by a fundamentalist preacher named Billy James Hargis and you have the recipe for America's most paradoxical state. Far from being a placid place in the heart of Flyover Country, Oklahoma has been a laboratory for all kinds of social, political, and artistic movements, producing a singular list of weirdos, geniuses, and villains. In The Great Oklahoma Swindle Russell Cobb tells the story of a state rich in natural resources and artistic talent, yet near the bottom in education and social welfare. Raised in Tulsa, Cobb engages Oklahomans across the boundaries of race and class to hear their troubles, anxieties, and aspirations and delves deep to understand their contradictory and often stridently independent attitudes. Interweaving memoir, social commentary, and sometimes surprising research around the themes of race, religion, and politics, Cobb presents an insightful portrait that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about the American Heartland.
Book Synopsis The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People: Volume I: Ancient-Statehood by : John J. Dwyer
Download or read book The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People: Volume I: Ancient-Statehood written by John J. Dwyer and published by Red River Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable saga of America's last frontier-the Oklahoma Country. Never has the story of this great land and people been told like John J. Dwyer does it. Storybook, history book, coffee table book. Featuring the same colorful and readable format that has helped make his "The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War" a success, "The Oklahomans (Volume 1, Ancient-Statehood)," chronicles the saga of the winning-and losing-of a land. Some of the most famous cowboys, Indians, lawmen, outlaws, and explorers in American history stride across the pages of this unforgettable story. So do some of the country's greatest entrepreneurs, statesmen, Christian ministers, social pioneers, and athletes.
Download or read book Oklalusa written by Eddie Jackson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oklalusa, which means home of the black people, is about the true story of a U.S. Territory becoming a state run by men and women with fleecy locks and dark complexions. The black state movement begins in Indian Territory as the black Indians battle fears that allotment will displace them and the loss of land to farm would leave them bereft. J. Milton Turner, a black diplomat from Missouri has President Rutherford B. Hayes's ear. Turner and his able team of attorneys and accountants raise significant funds to support a home for the black Indians in the neighboring two million acres referred to as the unassigned lands. APRIL 22, 1889 is the most important day in Oklahoma history. That celebrated day the Federal Government surrendered legal possession of the unassigned lands. The lush lands of the "fair gods" fell into human hands, white human hands. But the romance dimmed when the weather turned rough and the ground proved hard. Absent black hands, plows stood idle, mules went unfed and cotton remained unchopped -causing half of the fifty thousand ne'er do wells who made the famed '89 run to abandon dreams of ease and wealth and move on. The Langston Herald newspaper, owned and edited by two mullato men kept a tally of abandoned claims. They hired agents in southern cities to distribute the Herald and exhort the industrious class among the five million former slaves to come to Oklahoma Territory, get a free farm, and live in a place where colored Sheriffs and colored government officials rule. When the number of blacks in Oklahoma Territory equals the whites, there is pressure on President Benjamin Harrison to appoint Edwin McCabe, a man called the Bright Jewel of the colored race, the first governor of Oklahoma Territory. The black state movement crescents in the second Oklahoma run of 1891. Blacks fight to put half the nearly one million acres available into skilled dark hands. What really happened in the run of 1891 and its aftermath is largely unknown until now.
Book Synopsis Impact by : Rochelle Stephney-Roberson
Download or read book Impact written by Rochelle Stephney-Roberson and published by Things with Impact. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMPACT: BLACKS IN OKLAHOMA HISTORY (2nd Edition) is a resource book filled with new historical information and visuals. It includes over 240 pages of events and biographies about people within the great state of Oklahoma. It follows in chronological order, events from before the Trail of Tears, The Land Runs, Tulsa Race Massacre, Blacks within the 5 Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Sit-Ins and much more. Information about historical icons such as Clara Luper, Ada Sipuel Fisher, Roscoe Dunjee, Walter J. Edwards, Ralph Ellison, and John Hope Franklin is included. Many stories, biographies and information from personal interviews of individuals who contributed towards civil rights in Oklahoma state history can be found in this one of a kind book.
Book Synopsis Journey Toward Hope by : Jimmie Lewis Franklin
Download or read book Journey Toward Hope written by Jimmie Lewis Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the Oklahoma Collection.
