Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma

Beulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect, pioneers such as Edward P. McCabe championed the idea of Oklahoma as an all-Black state. And all-Black towns proliferated there. Some sixty all-Black towns, along with Tulsa's Greenwood District, bear witness to the deep creativity and incredible human spirit of the people who built them.

• | Author: Hannibal B. Johnson
• | Publisher: Eakin Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2007
• | Number of Pages: 276 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0978915038
• | ISBN-13: 9780978915032