A bill highlighting Oklahoma’s contributions to the Civil Rights Movement has been signed into law. Sen. Kevin Matthews, D-Tulsa, and Sen. Bill Coleman, R-Ponca City, are the Senate principal authors
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Oklahoma City –- The State Senate has unanimously approved a bill to create the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail. Senate Bill 509 by Senator Kevin Matthews, D-Tulsa, and Sen. Bill Coleman,
OKLAHOMA CITY — The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) received a $75,000 grant from the National Park Service (NPS) to continue its historic survey of All-Black towns in Oklahoma.
"Thirteen All-Black Towns of Oklahoma" runs from February 2 through March 29, 2022 at the Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar. This traveling exhibit, offered through the Oklahoma Historical Society, highlights the thirteen towns that are still incorporated today. When E. P. McCabe came to Oklahoma in the 1889 Land Run his vision was to create an All-Black state. Although that never materialized, McCabe and others succeeded in establishing All-Black towns. Nowhere else, neither in the Deep South nor the Far West, did so many African American men and women come together to create, occupy, and govern their own communities. Boley, Brooksville, Clearview, Grayson, Langston, Lima, Red Bird, Rentiesville, Taft, Tatums, Tullahassee, Summit, and Vernon are the towns highlighted in this exhibit.