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*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v011/v011p1056.html Chronicles of Oklahoma]  
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v011/v011p1056.html Chronicles of Oklahoma]  
*[http://www.blackarchives.org/ Black Archives of Mid-America]
*[http://www.blackarchives.org/ Black Archives of Mid-America]
*[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entryname=african%20americans Oklahoma Historical Society: African Americans]
==Research Strategy==
==Research Strategy==
==History==
==History==
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'''Online Resources'''
'''Online Resources'''
*[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entryname=african%20americans Oklahoma Historical Society: African Americans]
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FR016.html Freedmen]  
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FR016.html Freedmen]  
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AL009.html Freedmen Towns]
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AL009.html Freedmen Towns]
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====Plantation====
====Plantation====
===Oral Histories===
===Oral Histories===
[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ewyatt/_borders/Oklahoma%20Slave%20Narratives/Slave%20Narrative%20Index.html Oklahoma Slave Narratives]  
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ewyatt/_borders/Oklahoma%20Slave%20Narratives/Slave%20Narrative%20Index.html Oklahoma Slave Narratives]  


===Other Records===
===Other Records===
'''City Directories'''<br>
'''City Directories'''<br>
Muskogee Oklahoma Negro Directory: includes the town of Taft (FamilySearch Catalog Film Number:[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C180%2C0&titleno=746676&disp= 1994331 Item 6])  
*Muskogee Oklahoma Negro Directory: includes the town of Taft (FamilySearch Catalog Film Number:[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C180%2C0&titleno=746676&disp= 1994331 Item 6])  


'''Migration'''
'''Migration'''
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'''Prison Records'''<br>
'''Prison Records'''<br>
Aylesworth State Prison Farm, 1916-1925, Marshall County, Oklahoma<br>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.&nbsp;(FamilySearch Catalog Film Number:&nbsp;[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=1341762&disp=Aylesworth+State+Prison+Farm%2C+1916-1++ 1838318 Item 14])  
*Aylesworth State Prison Farm, 1916-1925, Marshall County, Oklahoma<br>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.&nbsp;(FamilySearch Catalog Film Number: [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=1341762&disp=Aylesworth+State+Prison+Farm%2C+1916-1++ 1838318 Item 14])  
===Military Records===
===Military Records===
[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BU005.html Buffalo Soldiers]  
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BU005.html Buffalo Soldiers]  


===Newspapers===
===Newspapers===
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*[http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aaw/langston-city-herald Langston City Herald]  
*[http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aaw/langston-city-herald Langston City Herald]  
*[http://www.worldcat.org/title/pioneer-newspaper-c1898-1905/oclc/71000957&referer=brief_results Pioneer newspaper, c[a.] 1898-1905]The Pioneer was an African-American newspaper published in Muskogee County.
*[http://www.worldcat.org/title/pioneer-newspaper-c1898-1905/oclc/71000957&referer=brief_results Pioneer newspaper, c[a.] 1898-1905]The Pioneer was an African-American newspaper published in Muskogee County.
===Probate Records===
===Probate Records===
===Reconstruction Records===
===Reconstruction Records===
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*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/L/LA021.html Langston University]  
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/L/LA021.html Langston University]  
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FR017.html Freedman Schools]
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FR017.html Freedman Schools]
===Slavery Records===
===Slavery Records===
*In the 1830s African American slavery was established in the Indian Territory, the region that would become Oklahoma. By the late eighteenth century, when over half a million Africans were enslaved in the South, the five southern Indian societies of that region Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole had come to include both enslaved blacks and small numbers of free African Americans <ref>[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/S/SL003.html Oklahoma State Digital Library]</ref>
*In the 1830s African American slavery was established in the Indian Territory, the region that would become Oklahoma. By the late eighteenth century, when over half a million Africans were enslaved in the South, the five southern Indian societies of that region Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole had come to include both enslaved blacks and small numbers of free African Americans <ref>[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/S/SL003.html Oklahoma State Digital Library]</ref>
===Vital Records===
===Vital Records===
====Birth====
====Birth====
====Marriage====
====Marriage====
====Death====
====Death====
====Divorce====
====Divorce====
===Voting Registers===
===Voting Registers===
==Archives and Libraries==
==Archives and Libraries==
[http://www.blackarchives.org/ The Black Archives of Mid-America], 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.
[http://www.blackarchives.org/ The Black Archives of Mid-America], 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.
==Societies==
==Societies==


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