List of African-American newspapers in Oklahoma

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Front page of a 1904 issue of , containing a speech marking the establishment of Rentiesville or Rentiville.

This is a list of African-American newspapers that have been published in the state of Oklahoma. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first known African-American newspaper in Oklahoma was the Oklahoma Guide (distinct from the later Guthrie publication of the same name), which was a monthly newspaper published in Oklahoma City in 1889.[1] The state's first weekly African-American newspaper was in 1891.[1]

Many of these early Oklahoma newspapers were published in the many all-Black towns established after the Land Run of 1889. Langston City in particular was home to eleven newspapers from 1891 to 1913.[2]

Notable African-American newspapers in Oklahoma today include of Oklahoma City and The Oklahoma Eagle of Tulsa.

Newspapers[]

City Title Beginning End Frequency Call numbers Remarks
Ardmore The Avalanche 1908[3] ?[3] Weekly[3]
  • LCCN sn97070143
  • OCLC 37472030
  • Edited by B. J. F. Wesbrooks, G. B. Richards.[3]
Ardmore The Oklahoma Sun
Indian Territory Sun[5]
Sun		 1902[4] 1906[4] Weekly[4]
Ardmore The World 1907[6] ?[6] Weekly[6]
  • Edited by B.C. Franklin.[6]
Boley The Beacon
Boley Beacon		 1908[7] ?[7] Weekly[7]
  • Edited by E.D. Lynwood.[7]
Boley The Boley Informer 1909?[8] ?[8] Weekly[8]
  • Published by A.L. Moore.[8]
  • Attested through at least 1911.[8]
Boley The Boley News 1914?[9] ?[9] Weekly[9]
  • Published by A.L. Moore.[9]
  • Billed as the “Official Organ for the Town of Boley, the Largest Exclusive Negro Town in the World.”[9]
  • Attested through at least 1918.[9]
Boley Boley Progress /
The Boley Progress[11]		 1905[10] 1926[10] Weekly[10]
  • Published by O.H. Bradley.[11]
Boley The Boley Trumpet 1924?[12] ?[12] Weekly[12]
  • Edited by Elijah J. Burns.[12]
The Bookertee Searchlight 1919?[13] ?[13] Weekly[13]
  • Published by I.L. Leathers.[13]
Castle Castle News /
The Castle News[15]		 1908[14] ?[14] Weekly[14]
Clarksville The Clarksville Echo 1900s[16] 1900s[16] Weekly[16]
Clearview Tribune 1904[17] 1904[17] Weekly[17]
  • Published by B.K. Bruce.[17]
Clearview The Lincoln Tribune 1904[18] 1900s[18] Weekly[18]
  • Published by E.D. Lynwood.[18]
Clearview The Patriarch /
The Clearview Patriarch (1911–1913)[20]		 1911[19] 1917[19] Weekly[19]
  • Numerous different editors and publishers.[19]
Fallis The Fallis Blade 1904[21] 1900s[21] Weekly[21]
  • Published by G.W. Hutchins.[21]
Garvin The Garvin Pioneer 1900s[22] 1910s[22] Weekly[22]
  • Published by W.H. Carroll.[22]
Guthrie Labor Advocate 1902[23] 1900s[23] Weekly[23]
  • Published by O.O. Blesh.[23]
Guthrie 1892[24] 1922[24] Weekly[24]
  • Published by G.N. Perkins.[24]
Guthrie The Oklahoma Safeguard 1894[26] or 1895[25] 1915[25] Weekly[25]
  • Published by Published by Buchanan Publishing Co., edited by C.A. Buchanan.[25]
Guthrie The Peoples Elevator 1922[27] 1940s[27] Weekly[27]
  • Published in Wichita, Kansas, from February 21, 1924 to October 28, 1926; in Independence, Kansas, from November 4, 1926 to July 24, 1930; and in Kansas City, Kansas from August 19, 1937 to September 19, 1940.[27]
  • Published by Watton Brown.[27]
Guthrie The Guthrie Progress 1901[28] 1905?[28] Weekly[28]
  • Published by O.H. Bradley.[28]
Guthrie The Weekly Sun 1913[29] 1914[29] Weekly[29]
  • Edited by J. H. Hubbard.[29]
Langston Church and State 1911[31] 1911[30] Weekly[31]
  • Edited by E. J. Vance.[31]
Langston The Langston City Herald 1891[32] 1902[32] Weekly[32]
Langston The Western Age 1904[33] 1909[33] Weekly[33]
  • Published and edited by S. Douglas Russell.[33]
Lawton The New Community Guide 1970?[34] 1977?[34] Weekly[34]
  • Published by Robert Goodwin and William P. Kuykendall.[34]
Lawton The Lawton Oklahoma Eagle 1970?[35] or 1978[36] 1990?[35] or 1980s[36] Weekly[35]
  • Published by James O. Goodwin and Edward L. Goodwin.[35]
Mulhall The Mulhall Enterprise 1894[37] 1911[37] Weekly[37]
  • Published by Willis B. Ehrman.[37]
Muskogee /
The Muskogee Cimeter[39]		 1899[38] or 1901[39] 1930[38] Weekly[38]
Muskogee The Muskogee Comet 1904[40] ?[40] Weekly[40]
  • Published by J.E. Toombs.[40]
Muskogee Creek Baptist Herald 1911[41] 1910s[41] Weekly[41]
Muskogee The Daily Search-Light 1905[42] 1900s[42] Daily (except Sunday)[42]
Muskogee The Dispensation 1905[43] 1900s[43] Monthly newspaper[43]
  • Published by D.P. Pruett.[43]
Muskogee The Muskogee Lantern 1926[45] or 1927[44] 1940s[44] Weekly[45]
Muskogee The Oklahoma Gazette 1910?[46] ?[46] Weekly[46]
  • Edited by William Fields.[46]
Muskogee The Oklahoma Independent 1936[47] 1960s[47] Weekly[47]
  • Description based on: Vol. 26, no. 3 (Apr. 16, 1954).
  • Published by M.C. Simmons.
Muskogee The Muskogee Parrot 1940[48] ?[48] Weekly[48]
  • Edited by C. E. Corbett.[48]
Muskogee The Pioneer 1898[49] 1900s[49] Weekly[49]
  • Edited from 1898 to 1904 by .[39] Edited subsequently by William A. Rentie.[49]
Muskogee Saturday Evening Tribune 1912[50] ?[50] Weekly[50]
  • Edited by S. Douglas Russell.[50]
  • Extant through at least 1913.[50]
Muskogee Southwesterner 1905[51] ?[51] Weekly[51]
  • Edited by J.T. Nicholson.[51]
Muskogee The Muskogee Star 1912[52] 1912[52] or 1913[53] Weekly[52]
  • Published by A.J. Smitherman.[52]
Muskogee The Tattler 1915[54] 1917[54] Weekly[54]
  • Published by Ernest D. Lynwood and Robert Jase.[54]
Muskogee The Weekly Progress 1926[55] 1926[55] Weekly[55]
  • Edited and published by O.H. Bradley.[55]
Muskogee The Western World 1902[56] ?[56] Weekly[56]
  • Edited by J. C. Leftwich.[56]
Oklahoma City The Black Advocate 1992[57] 1993[57] Weekly[57]
Oklahoma City 1979[58] current Weekly[58]
Oklahoma City The Black Dispatch 1915[59] 1982[59] Weekly[59]
  • Published by Richard Keaton Nash.[59]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma City Guide /
The Guide (1898–1903)[61]		 1897[62] or 1898[61] 1900s[60] Weekly[60]
  • Attested through at least 1910.[60]
  • Published by Mattie M. Mallory.[62]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Dispatch 1981[63] 1980s[63] Weekly[63]
  • Attested through at least 1983.[63]
  • Published by Richard Keaton Nash.[63]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Guide 1889[1] 1889[1] Monthly / "sporadic"[1]
  • "We know little else about the journal except the fact of its existence."[1]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Tribune 1907[64] 1910s[64] Weekly[64]
Oklahoma City The Western World 1900s[65] 1900s[65] Weekly[65]
  • "Published in the interest of the Sango Baptist College and Industrial Institute as well as the Baptist denomination of the Indian Territory."[65]
  • Attested from at least 1903 to 1905.[65]
  • Published by J.C. Leftwich and J.W. Capers.[65]
Okmulgee The Okmulgee Observer 1900s 0000s[66] Weekly[66]
  • Description based on: Vol. 6, no. 13 (Feb. 12, 1942).
  • Microfilm.
Okmulgee The Okmulgee Observer 1937?[67] ?[67] Weekly[67]
  • Published and edited by B.J. Wilson.[67]
  • Attested through at least 1942.[66]
Paden The Paden Press 1908[68] 1909[68] Weekly[68]
  • Published and edited by John Young Bryce.[68]
Paden The Paden Times 1907?[69] 1908[69] Weekly[69]
  • Published by E.E. Tabor and S.T. Peet.[69]
Taft Taft Enterprise 1910[70] 1914[70] Weekly[70]
Tulsa The Tulsa Guide 1906[71] 1900s[71] Weekly[71]
  • Published by W.L. McKee.[71]
Tulsa 1922?[72] current Weekly[72]
Tulsa Oklahoma Sun 1920[74] 1920s[73] Weekly[74]
Tulsa /
Tulsa Daily Star		 1913[75] 1921[75] Weekly[75]
Tulsa Tulsa Weekly Planet 1910s[77] ?[77] Weekly[77]
  • Attested from at least 1912.[77]
  • Published by Prof. J.H. Hill.[77]
Wagoner The Wagoner Echo 1904[78] ?[78] Weekly[78]
Wewoka The Wewoka and Lima Courier 1913[79] ?[79] Weekly[79]
  • Edited by M.W. Williams.[79]

See also[]

Works cited[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Williams 1996, p. 268.
  2. ^ Williams 1996, p. 273.
  3. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 56, ¶ 574.
  4. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 441, ¶ 4592.
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  6. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 621, ¶ 6490.
  7. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 64, ¶ 654.
  8. ^ a b c d e Danky & Hady 1998, p. 110, ¶ 1152.
  9. ^ a b c d e f Danky & Hady 1998, p. 112, ¶ 1153.
  10. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 112, ¶ 1154.
  11. ^ a b "About The Boley progress. [volume] (Boley, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1926". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  12. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 112, ¶ 1155.
  13. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 112, ¶ 1162.
  14. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 138, ¶ 1434.
  15. ^ "About The Castle news. (Castle, Okla.) 1908-????". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  16. ^ a b c "About The Clarksville echo. (Clarksville, I.T. [Okla.]) 190?-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
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  28. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 259, ¶ 2721.
  29. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 608, ¶ 6357.
  30. ^ "About Church and state. [volume] (Langston, Okla.) 1911-1911". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  31. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 152, ¶ 1583.
  32. ^ a b c "About The Langston City herald. [online resource] (Langston City, Okla.) 1891-1902". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  33. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 610, ¶ 6380.
  34. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 406, ¶ 4235.
  35. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 333, ¶ 3482.
  36. ^ a b "About The Lawton Oklahoma eagle. (Lawton, Okla.) 1978-198?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  37. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 378, ¶ 3949.
  38. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 380, ¶ 3971.
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  41. ^ a b c "About Creek Baptist herald. (Muskogee, Okla.) 1911-191?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  42. ^ a b c "About The Daily search-light. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1905-190?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  43. ^ a b c d "About The Dispensation. [volume] (Muskogee, I.T. [Okla.]) 1905-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  44. ^ a b "About The Muskogee lantern. [volume] (Muskogee, Okla.) 1927-194?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  45. ^ a b Danky & Hady 1998, p. 381, ¶ 3973.
  46. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 440, ¶ 4589.
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  50. ^ a b c d e Danky & Hady 1998, p. 502, ¶ 5235.
  51. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 532, ¶ 5550.
  52. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 381, ¶ 3975.
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  56. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 612, ¶ 6402.
  57. ^ a b c "About The black advocate. (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1992-1993". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  58. ^ a b "About The Black chronicle. (Oklahoma City [Okla.]) 1979-current". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
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  65. ^ a b c d e f "About The Western world. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 190?-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  66. ^ a b c "About The Okmulgee observer. [microfilm reel] (Okmulgee, Okla.) 19??-????". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
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  68. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 450, ¶ 4695.
  69. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 450, ¶ 4696.
  70. ^ a b c Danky & Hady 1998, p. 552, ¶ 5759.
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  79. ^ a b c d Danky & Hady 1998, p. 613, ¶ 6404.
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