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Acres of Aspiration: The All Black Towns in Oklahoma
Acres of Aspiration The All Black 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 Distric...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781571686640
ISBN-10: 1571686649
Publication Date: 2/2002
Pages: 261
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Eakin Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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