African American Resources for Oklahoma

[[United State][[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go t][[Oklahoma Genealogy|Oklahom] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go t] African American Resources for Oklahoma

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
[1]

[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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