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All-Black Towns of Oklahoma

All-Black Towns of Oklahoma StoryMap
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Marcus Young, GIS Specialist of Oklahoma’s State Historic Preservation Office shares the history of Oklahoma’s All-Black Towns. This ArcGIS StoryMap highlights “the creativity, entrepreneurial spirits, and tenacity that helped build some of these Black safe havens” with connections to well-known Black history figures such as Booker T. Washington and John Hope Franklin. 

 

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