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Black History Month: Overturning Oklahoma’s Jim Crow laws
Just weeks after Oklahoma became the nation’s 46th state in 1907, the Oklahoma Senate passed its first law — a Jim Crow ...
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NYC’s first Black train conductor broke racial barriers in 1930s
Jotham T. Coleman, whom researchers have little information about, was hired as a conductor by the Independent Subway System ...
Black Family Continues Fight To Keep Land Despite Court Ruling Railroads Can Take It
A Black family from Sparta, Georgia, continues the fight to save their land after a court ruling allowed a railroad company ...
Origins of Black Wall Street
JB Stratford founded "Black Wall Street", together with Ottawa W. Gurley in the early 20th century. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hundreds of Black Americans moved to the thriving district during the ...