Students in this course engage in independent research as a way to engage with the people and places of the past connected to the Black experience in Oklahoma. Both undergraduate and graduate students have written a Virtual Heritage Story about one person of African or Afro-Indigenous descent who found freedom in an otherwise hostile landscape and made an impact on Oklahoma history. Students have selected individuals based on their connection to a historic district, battlefield, or archaeological site within Oklahoma/”Indian” Territory and chosen to highlight their contributions to the larger story of Black heritage in Oklahoma.

Selected Individuals students have chosen to research

• Josiah Perryman
• Zelia Page Breaux
• GAP Band (Charlie, Ronnie, Robert Wilson)
• Sugar T. George
• William Purcells
• Mary Jones Parrish
• AJ Smitherman
• Edwin/Edward P. McCabe
• Roscoe Dunjee
• Cleo Hearn
• Ralph Ellison
• O.W. Gurley
• Dr. Olivia J. Hooker
• Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
• Mabel B. Little
• Inman Page

Student VHS Projects Have Arrived

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  Cowboy Cleo Hearn
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  Roscoe Dunjee: The Little Caesar of Civil Rights
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  Dr. Inman Edward Page
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  Zelia Breaux
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  Sugar T. George, the “African Town King”
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  Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
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  Reverend William R. Purcells
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  Mabel B. Little
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  A Legacy of Words
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  Meet Mary E. Jones Parrish
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  Edward P. McCabe
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  Ralph Ellison and the Spirit of the Deep Deuce