African American Resources for Oklahoma

Archives and Libraries

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.

City Directories

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

Freedmen

• Freedmen
• Freedmen Towns

History of African American Oklahomans
[1]

African Americans

Homestead Records
[2]

• Homestead Act
• Oklahoma Homesteader Records
• Oklahoma's All-Black Towns
  
• Langston City Herald  promoted African American homesteading in the Oklahoma Territory.

Migration

• African American Exodus to Canada
• Blacks:  Early Settlements (African-Canadians)

Military

Buffalo Soldiers

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

Oklahoma Slave Narratives

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. (FHL Catalog Film Number: 1838318 Item 14)

Schools

• Langston University
• Freedman Schools

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming

Tenant Farming and Sharecropping

Family History Library (FHL); now called, FamilySearch Library (FSL)