Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma, Paperback - Hannibal B. Johnson

Reducere. 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...

DescriptionThis story, set in 1920, revolves around Charles "Charlie" Jackson, a twelve-and-a-half-year-old from Boley, Oklahoma, one of America's ...

Reducere. Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission ...

Reducere. In the past 150 years as many as two thousand Oklahoma hamlets, villages, towns, and even cities have bloomed and then died. Some have faded away, ...

Reducere. Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Freque...

Reducere. Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Freque...

Reducere. Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission ...

Reducere. In the early 1900s, an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit brought national renown to Tulsa's historic African American community, the Greenwood Dis...

Reducere. Arizona's ghost towns exemplify man's courage, tenacity, and perhaps even foolishness in his search for wealth. Inevitable by-products of the devel...

Reducere. The binding persons of African descent and Native Americans trace back centuries. In Oklahoma, both free and enslaved Africans lived among the "Fiv...

Reducere. Fishing is one of the most popular sports in Oklahoma, a state that boasts over 1, 000 square miles of water. Now Fishes of Oklahoma, the only comp...

Reducere. Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla ...

Reducere. One of early-twentieth-century America's most fertile grounds for political radicalism, the Pacific Northwest produced some of the most dedicated a...

Reducere. In places like the valley town of Alma, once known to Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, and through the dusty streets of San Antonio, where Conrad ...

Reducere. There is something romantic yet harshly concrete about an abandoned town. Dreams, conflicts, and losses still haunt what remains, so it's no wonder...

Reducere. The Historical Atlas of Oklahoma has been an indispensable reference for longer than four decades. Issued on the eve of the Oklahoma Centennial, th...

Reducere. UP FROM THE ASHES tells the story of the development, destruction, and rebuilding of a dynamic neighborhood from a child's perspective. Based on ac...

Reducere. How do you remove an unpopular president from office? On February 24, 1868, members of the United States House of Representatives voted to impeach ...

The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of the Capitol and the White House by British forces, The Star-Spangled Banner, and...

William Hannibal Thomas served with distinction in the US Colored Troops in the Civil War and was a preacher, teacher, lawyer, state legislator, an...

Reducere. "The indefatigable T. Lindsay Baker has now turned his enormous mental and physical energies to the subject and has brought to view - if not to lif...

Reducere. In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to forge a pan-Indian alliance to preserve the homelands of the confederated...

Reducere. Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West's most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land ...

Reducere. Los Angeles rock generally conjures memories of surf music, The Doors, or Laurel Canyon folkies. But punk? L.A.'s punk scene, while not as notoriou...

Reducere. UP FROM THE ASHES tells the story of the development, destruction, and rebuilding of a dynamic neighborhood from a child's perspective. Based on ac...

The Constitution Of The State Of Oklahoma, has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This for...

Reducere. A state of botanical dynamism, Oklahoma's wild edible plant life is rich and varied. This diversity is linked to a number of environmental elements...

Reducere. Living beyond the boundaries of prescribed inferiority requires an attitude of audacity and a determined code of conduct. Still some African-Americ...

Reducere. While political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year ...

Reducere. DescriptionMassacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Oklahoma 2, with compelling legends of the Sooner State's most despica...

Reducere. In 1980, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New Land that described and analyzed the role of the ma...

Reducere. Throughout the nineteenth century, the land known as "Indian Territory" was populated by diverse cultures, troubled by shifting political boundarie...

Reducere. H. B. Cushman, the son of missionaries working at Mayhew, a Choctaw Indian station in Mississippi, observed the Indians' heartbreaking removal from...