African American Resources for Oklahoma

A list of resources to research African American ancestors who lived in Oklahoma.

Archives and Libraries
The Black Archives of Mid-America, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a center for learning and research into the African American experience in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma and the Midwest at large.

City Directories
Muskogee Oklahoma Negro Directory : includes the town of Taft (FamilySearch Catalog Film Number:1994331 Item 6)

Freedmen

 * Freedmen
 * Freedmen Towns

History of African American Oklahomans

African Americans

Homestead Records


 * Homestead Act
 * Oklahoma Homesteader Records
 * Oklahoma's All-Black Towns
 * Langston City Heraldpromoted African American homesteading in the Oklahoma Territory.

Migration

 * African American Exodus to Canada
 * Blacks: Early Settlements (African-Canadians)

Military
Buffalo Soldiers

Newspapers

 * Newspapers, African American
 * Langston City Herald
 * Pioneer newspaper, c[a. 1898-1905]The Pioneer was an African-American newspaper published in Muskogee County.

Oral History
Oklahoma Slave Narratives

Prison Records
Aylesworth State Prison Farm, 1916-1925, Marshall County, Oklahoma Schools "The Aylesworth State Prison Farm was an all black prison located in Marshall County and was in existence between 1916 and 1925." -- P. 1. (FamilySearch Catalog Film Number: 1838318 Item 14)

Schools

 * Langston University
 * Freedman Schools

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming
Tenant Farming and Sharecropping