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African Americans in Oklahoma or Black Oklahomans are residents of the state of Oklahoma who are of African American ancestry. African Americans have a rich history in Oklahoma. [1] [2] An estimated 7.8% of Oklahomans are Black as of the 2020 census, constituting 289,961 individuals. [3] African-Americans first settled in Oklahoma during the ...
Redbird is a town in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, United States.The population was 137 at the 2010 census, a 10.5 percent decline from the figure of 153 in 2000. [3] Founded at the turn of the 20th century, it was one of more than fifty all-black towns in Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory and is one of thirteen surviving black communities in Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Historical Society created the touring exhibition "Thirteen All-Black Towns of Oklahoma," highlighting Boley and 12 additional towns that have survived into the 21st century. Preview materials note: "When E. P. McCabe came to Oklahoma in the 1889 Land Run his vision was to create an All-Black state.
Around noon on June 1, the Oklahoma National Guard imposed martial law, ending the massacre. [42] [43] About 10,000 black people were left homeless, and the cost of the property damage amounted to more than $1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property (equivalent to $38.43 million in 2023).
A selection of 12 black-and-white portraits with corresponding oral history recordings, the exhibit explores the history of more than 1,000 Black Oklahomans who migrated to the Canadian prairies ...
Grayson was originally named Wildcat and was located within the area that became McIntosh County at statehood. It was named for a Muscogee chief, George W. Grayson.The name changed when Grayson's post office was established February 10, 1902, although the legal town name remained as Wildcat into the 1960s.
Clearview, Oklahoma, was founded in 1903 prior to statehood by J.A. Roper, Lemuel Jackson, and John Grayson, who established the Lincoln Townsite Company to attract Black settlers. [7] Located along the Fort Smith and Western Railroad, Clearview was part of the Black Town Movement, [ 8 ] which provided African Americans opportunities for ...
Brooksville is a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. It is one of the thirteen existing all-black towns in Oklahoma. The population was 63 at the 2010 census, a 30 percent decline from the figure of 90 in 2000. [4]