Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma

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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 id… [more below]

  • Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Page Count: 278
  • Publish Date: April 15 2013
  • ISBN10: 0978915038
  • Language: English
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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, bear witness to the deep creativity and incredible human spirit of the people who built them.

Author: Hannibal B. Johnson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Eakin Press
Published: 08/01/2007
Pages: 278
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780978915032
Language: English

Author

Johnson, Hannibal B.

Binding

ISBN10

0978915038

ISBN13

9780978915032

Page Count

278

Published Date

April 15 2013

Language

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