African American Resources for Oklahoma

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A list of resources to research African American ancestors who lived in Oklahoma.

Archives and Libraries
[http://www.blackarchives.org/ The Black Archives of Mid-Americ, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a center for learning and research into the African American experience in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma and the Midwest at large.

City Directories
Muskogee Oklahoma Negro Directory : includes the town of Taft (FamilySearch Catalog Film Number:1994331 Item 6)

Freedmen

 * [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FR016.html Freedme
 * [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AL009.html Freedmen Town

History of African American Oklahomans

[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AF003.html African American

Homestead Records [http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/war.crimes/US/Homestead.Act.ht


 * [http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/war.crimes/US/Homestead.Act.htm Homestead Ac
 * [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~swokla/custer/homested.html Oklahoma Homesteader Record
 * [http://thislandpress.com/06/05/2010/oklahomas-all-black-towns/ Oklahoma's All-Black Town
 * Langston City Heraldpromoted African American homesteading in the Oklahoma Territory.

Migration

 * [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AF001.html African American Exodus to Canad
 * Blacks: Early Settlements (African-Canadians)

Military
[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BU005.html Buffalo Soldier

Newspapers

 * Newspapers, African American
 * Langston City Herald
 * Pioneer newspaper, c[a. 1898-1905]The Pioneer was an African-American newspaper published in Muskogee County.

Oral History
[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ewyatt/_borders/Oklahoma%20Slave%20Narratives/Slave%20Narrative%20Index.html Oklahoma Slave Narrative

Prison Records
Aylesworth State Prison Farm, 1916-1925, Marshall County, Oklahoma Schools "The Aylesworth State Prison Farm was an all black prison located in Marshall County and was in existence between 1916 and 1925." -- P. 1. (FamilySearch Catalog Film Number: 1838318 Item 14)

Schools

 * [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/L/LA021.html Langston Universit
 * [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FR017.html Freedman School

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming
[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/T/TE009.html Tenant Farming and Sharecroppin

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