Course Resources

Karla Slocum	Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West	2019
Alaina E. Roberts	I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land	2021
bell hooks	Belonging: A Culture of Place	2009
Eddie Faye Gates	They Came Searching: How Blacks Sought the Promised Land in Tulsa	1997
Kendra Taira Field	Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War	2018
Jimmie Lewis Franklin	Journey Toward Hope: A History of Blacks in Oklahoma	1982
Kaye M. Teall	Black History in Oklahoma: A Resource Book	1971
Carlos Moreno	The Victory of Greenwood	2021
Hannibal Johnson	Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma	2002
Hannibal Johnson	Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District	2007
Author Tolson	The Black Oklahomans: A History 1541-1972	1972
Celia E. Naylor	African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens	2009
Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods	Black Geographies and the Politics of Place	2007
James W. Loewen	Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism	2005
Candacy Taylor	Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America	2020
Terrance Weik	The Archaeology of Removal in North America	2019
Edwaed Gonzalez-Tennant	The Rosewood Massacre: An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence	2018
Paul Mullins	Revolting Things: An Archaeology of Shameful Histories and Repulsive Realities	2021
Monica Munoz Martinez	The Injustice Never Leaves You	2018

BLACK HERITAGE ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH TOOLS

Library of Congress
Digital Collections Connected to OK – Federal Writers Project, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Railroad Maps, Civil War History Project

Oklahoma Historical Society
Gateway to Oklahoma History

Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program
Langston Herald
Oklahoma Black Dispatch
Tulsa Star
Muskogee Star
Tulsa Oklahoma Eagle

(Using Geospatial Tools to Bear Witness to Black/Indigenous Heritage, Injustice & Erasure)