Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District
Before it went up in flames, Black Wall Street was the capital of the African American Dream.
Deep Deuce Oklahoma City
Harlem was not the only site of an African American cultural renaissance in the early 20th century. There was also Deep Deuce in Oklahoma City.
Clara Luper & The Sit-In Movement
Oklahoma City teacher, mother, and NAACP youth group leader Clara Luper bravely stood up to the injustice of segregation by staging sit-ins at lunch counters with the children with whom she worked.
All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
Nowhere else in America did so many Black Americans establish and govern their own communities than in one place — Oklahoma.
Freedmen on The Trail of Tears
Native people were not alone on their forced marches to unsettled lands; the Black people they enslaved accompanied them.