OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) - 135 years ago on May 2, the Oklahoma Territory was officially created. The U.S. 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison, appointed George W. Steele of Indiana as the territory’s first ...
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This Visionary African American Politician Dreamed of Creating an All-Black State in Oklahoma Territory
After the Civil War, even as Reconstruction was failing across the United States, Black Americans in the South faced a choice: Should I leave, or should I stay? Edward P. McCabe—who had clerked on ...
The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State, by Donald L. Fixico, University of Oklahoma Press, 206 pages, $34.95 In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court ...
Caleb Gayle - Author, Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State Edward P. McCabe argued that Black people could not only belong in the new American territorities, but actually be ...
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