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African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. Oklahoma churches and associations. /Microfilm Roll 81/

Baker, T. Lindsay and Julie P. Baker. The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. 543p. Bibliography. Index. /GC 976.6 W919/

Brooks-Bertram, Peggy and Barbara Seals Nevergold. Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders of Oklahoma, 1907-2007, Volume 4. Buffalo, NY: Uncrowned Queens Publishing, 2007. 272p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.6 B79un, V. 4/

Burton, Art T. Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshall Bass Reeves. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 346p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Race & Ethnicity in the American West Series. /GC 978 B953BL/

Burton, Arthur T. Black, Red, and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-1907. Fort Worth, TX: Eakin Press, 1991. 304p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 976.6 B95bL/

Chang, David A. The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 293p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.6 C362co/

Davis, Darnella. . Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. 293p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.6 D29un/

Franklin, Jimmie Lewis. Journey Toward Hope: A History of Blacks in Oklahoma. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. 256p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.6 F854j/

Franklin, Jimmie Lewis. The Blacks in Oklahoma. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 198-. 79p. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 976.6 F85b/

Jackson, Eddie. Oklalusa: The Story of the Black State Movement in Oklahoma. S.L.: E. Jackson, 2020. 309p. Addendum. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.6 J13ok/

Lynn-Sherow, Bonnie. Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004. 186p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.6 L993r/

Mulroy, Kevin. The Seminole Freedmen, A History. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 446p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 970.3 Se52mu/

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography-Oklahoma and Mississippi Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972. /GC 976.6 Ok55 Sec. 1/

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography-Oklahoma Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1977. /GC 976.6 Ok54/

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography-Oklahoma...Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1979. /GC 929.11 AL113 Sec. 13/

Reese, Linda Williams. Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2013. 186p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 R259ts/

Slocum, Karla. Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 171p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.6 SL53bL/

Smallwood, James. Crossroads Oklahoma: The Black Experience in Oklahoma. Stillwater, OK: Oklahoma State University, 1981. 28p. Bibliography. /GC 976.6 Sm19c/

Tolson, Arthur Lincoln. The Black Oklahomans, A History, 1541-1972. New Orleans, LA: Edwards Printing Company, 1966. 314p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 976.6 T587b/

Tolson, Arthur Lincoln. The Negro in Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907: A Study in Racial Discrimination. Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma, 1966. 188p. Ph.D. dissertation. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 976.6 T587n/

Wickett, Murray R. Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1865-1907. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. 240p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.6 W633co/

Carter County:

Ragsdale, Rhonda M. A Place to Call Home: A Study of the Self-Segregated Community of Tatums, Oklahoma, 1894-1970. Denton, TX: University of North Texas, 2005. 205p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.601 C24ra/

Craig County:

Oakley, Mary May and Constance Ann Schofield. Six Freedmen Cemeteries -- All are Black Community or Family Cemeteries: Tucker, Sanders, Salt Creek, Panther Creek, Manley-Ross, and Shady Grove Cemeteries. Vinita, OK: M. M. Oakley and C. A. Schofield, 2005. 198p. Illustrations. Index. Maps. /GC 976.6 Oa46si/

Nowata County:

Okfuskee County:

Shaw, James, Sr. Boley: Oklahoma's Famous Black Town. Moore, OK: Yes Publishing Group, 2012. 100p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 976.601 Ok2sj/

Oklahoma County:

Teall, Kaye M. Black History in Oklahoma: A Resource Book. Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma Public Schools, 1971. 306p. Illustrations. Index. Photographs.

Osage County:

Hess, Janet Berry. Osage and Settler: Reconstructing Shared History through an Oklahoma Family Archive. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015. 221p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.601 Os1hjb/

Pottawatomie County:

Falato, Betty Katherine Permetter. Black Schools in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, 1891-1966, and School Censuses, 1930-1950. Washington, DC: Falato Living Trust, 2002. 192p. Appendices. Bibliography. /GC 976.601 P85fb/

Rogers County:

Tulsa County:

Ellsworth, Scott. The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice. New York: Penguin Random House, LLC, 2021. 321p. Index. Notes. /GC 976.602 T82em/

Fletcher, Viola Ford and Ike Howard. Don't Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Her Own Words. New York: Mocha Media Publishing, 2023. 115p. Appendices. Photographs. /GC 976.602 T82fvf/hs. /GC

Gates, Eddie Faye. They Came Searching: How Blacks Sought the Promised Land in Tulsa. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1997. 322p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. /GC 976.602 T82fy/

Johnson, Hannibal B. Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with Its Historical Racial Trauma. Fort Worth, TX: Eakin Press, 2020. 376p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.602 T82joi/

Johnson, Hannibal B. Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1998. 280p. Appendices. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.602 T82jo/

Johnson, Hannibal B. Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014. 127p. Photographs. /GC 976.602 T82joh/

Lewis, Jovan Scott. Violent Utopia: Dispossession & Black Restoration in Tulsa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 257p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 976.602 T82Lj/

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