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Acres of Aspiration: The All-black Towns in Oklahoma
Acres of Aspiration The Allblack Towns in Oklahoma
Author: Hannibal B. Johnson
Beulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post–Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect, pioneers such as Edward P. McCabe championed the idea of Oklahoma as an all-Black state. And all-Black towns proliferated there. Some sixty all-Black towns, along with Tulsa's Greenwood District, be...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780978915032
ISBN-10: 0978915038
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Eakin Press
Book Type: Paperback
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