List of African-American newspapers in Oklahoma

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Front page of a 1904 issue of The Muskogee Cimeter, containing a speech marking the establishment of Rentiesville or Rentiville. The Muskogee Cimeter 1904-10-06.jpg
Front page of a 1904 issue of The Muskogee Cimeter , 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 The Langston City Herald in 1891. [1]

Contents

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 The Black Chronicle of Oklahoma City and The Oklahoma Eagle of Tulsa.

Newspapers

CityTitleBeginningEndFrequencyCall numbersRemarks
Ardmore The Avalanche1908 [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 [4]
Sun		1902 [5] 1906 [5] Weekly [5]
Ardmore The World1907 [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 Informer1909? [8] ? [8] Weekly [8]
  • Published by A.L. Moore. [8]
  • Attested through at least 1911. [8]
Boley The Boley News1914? [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 [10] 		1905 [11] 1926 [11] Weekly [11]
  • Published by O.H. Bradley. [10]
Boley The Boley Trumpet1924? [12] ? [12] Weekly [12]
  • Edited by Elijah J. Burns. [12]
Bookertee The Bookertee Searchlight1919? [13] ? [13] Weekly [13]
  • Published by I. L. Leathers. [13]
Castle Castle News /
The Castle News [14] 		1908 [15] ? [15] Weekly [15]
Clarksville The Clarksville Echo1900s [16] 1900s [16] Weekly [16]
Clear View Clearview Tribune1904 [17] 1904 [17] Weekly [17]
  • Published by B.K. Bruce. [17]
Clearview The Lincoln Tribune1904 [18] 1900s [18] Weekly [18]
  • Published by E.D. Lynwood. [18]
Clearview The Patriarch /
The Clearview Patriarch (1911–1913) [19] 		1911 [20] 1917 [20] Weekly [20]
  • Numerous different editors and publishers. [20]
Fallis The Fallis Blade1904 [21] 1900s [21] Weekly [21]
  • Published by G.W. Hutchins. [21]
Garvin The Garvin Pioneer1900s [22] 1910s [22] Weekly [22]
  • Published by W.H. Carroll. [22]
Guthrie Labor Advocate1902 [23] 1900s [23] Weekly [23]
  • Published by O.O. Blesh. [23]
Guthrie The Oklahoma Guide 1892 [24] 1922 [24] Weekly [24]
  • Published by G.N. Perkins. [24]
Guthrie The Oklahoma Safeguard 1894 [25] or 1895 [26] 1915 [26] Weekly [26]
  • Published by Published by Buchanan Publishing Co., edited by C.A. Buchanan. [26]
Guthrie The Peoples Elevator1922 [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 Progress1901 [28] 1905? [28] Weekly [28]
  • Published by O.H. Bradley. [28]
Guthrie The Weekly Sun1913 [29] 1914 [29] Weekly [29]
  • Edited by J. H. Hubbard. [29]
Langston Church and State1911 [30] 1911 [31] Weekly [30]
  • Edited by E. J. Vance. [30]
Langston The Langston City Herald 1891 [32] 1902 [32] Weekly [32]
Langston The Western Age1904 [33] 1909 [33] Weekly [33]
  • Published and edited by S. Douglas Russell. [33]
Lawton The New Community Guide1970? [34] 1977? [34] Weekly [34]
  • Published by Robert Goodwin and William P. Kuykendall. [34]
Lawton The Lawton Oklahoma Eagle1970? [35] or 1978 [36] 1990? [35] or 1980s [36] Weekly [35]
  • Published by James O. Goodwin and Edward L. Goodwin. [35]
Mulhall The Mulhall Enterprise1894 [37] 1911 [37] Weekly [37]
  • Published by Willis B. Ehrman. [37]
Muskogee Muskogee Cimeter /
The Muskogee Cimeter [38] 		1899 [39] or 1901 [38] 1930 [39] Weekly [39]
Muskogee The Muskogee Comet1904 [40] ? [40] Weekly [40]
  • Published by J.E. Toombs. [40]
Muskogee Creek Baptist Herald1911 [41] 1910s [41] Weekly [41]
Muskogee The Daily Search-Light1905 [42] 1900s [42] Daily (except Sunday) [42]
Muskogee The Dispensation1905 [43] 1900s [43] Monthly newspaper [43]
  • Published by D.P. Pruett. [43]
Muskogee The Muskogee Lantern1926 [44] or 1927 [45] 1940s [45] Weekly [44]
Muskogee The Oklahoma Gazette1910? [46] ? [46] Weekly [46]
  • Edited by William Fields. [46]
Muskogee The Oklahoma Independent1936 [47] 1960s [47] Weekly [47]
  • Description based on: Vol. 26, no. 3 (Apr. 16, 1954).
  • Published by M.C. Simmons.
Muskogee The Muskogee Parrot1940 [48] ? [48] Weekly [48]
  • Edited by C. E. Corbett. [48]
Muskogee The Pioneer1898 [49] 1900s [49] Weekly [49]
Muskogee Saturday Evening Tribune1912 [50] ? [50] Weekly [50]
  • Edited by S. Douglas Russell. [50]
  • Extant through at least 1913. [50]
Muskogee Southwesterner1905 [51] ? [51] Weekly [51]
  • Edited by J.T. Nicholson. [51]
Muskogee The Muskogee Star1912 [52] 1912 [52] or 1913 [53] Weekly [52]
Muskogee The Tattler1915 [54] 1917 [54] Weekly [54]
  • Published by Ernest D. Lynwood and Robert Jase. [54]
Muskogee The Weekly Progress1926 [55] 1926 [55] Weekly [55]
  • Edited and published by O.H. Bradley. [55]
Muskogee The Western World1902 [56] ? [56] Weekly [56]
  • Edited by J. C. Leftwich. [56]
Oklahoma City The Black Advocate1992 [57] 1993 [57] Weekly [57]
Oklahoma City The Black Chronicle 1979 [58] currentWeekly [58]
Oklahoma City The Black Dispatch1915 [59] 1982 [59] Weekly [59]
  • Published by Richard Keaton Nash. [59]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma City Guide /
The Guide (1898–1903) [60] 		1897 [61] or 1898 [60] 1900s [62] Weekly [62]
  • Attested through at least 1910. [62]
  • Published by Mattie M. Mallory. [61]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Dispatch1981 [63] 1980s [63] Weekly [63]
  • Attested through at least 1983. [63]
  • Published by Richard Keaton Nash. [63]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Guide1889 [1] 1889 [1] Monthly / "sporadic" [1]
  • "We know little else about the journal except the fact of its existence." [1]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Tribune1907 [64] 1910s [64] Weekly [64]
Oklahoma City The Western World1900s [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 Observer1900s0000s [66] Weekly [66]
  • Description based on: Vol. 6, no. 13 (Feb. 12, 1942).
  • Microfilm.
Okmulgee The Okmulgee Observer1937? [67] ? [67] Weekly [67]
  • Published and edited by B.J. Wilson. [67]
  • Attested through at least 1942. [66]
Paden The Paden Press1908 [68] 1909 [68] Weekly [68]
  • Published and edited by John Young Bryce. [68]
Paden The Paden Times1907? [69] 1908 [69] Weekly [69]
  • Published by E.E. Tabor and S.T. Peet. [69]
Taft Taft Enterprise1910 [70] 1914 [70] Weekly [70]
Tulsa The Tulsa Guide1906 [71] 1900s [71] Weekly [71]
  • Published by W.L. McKee. [71]
Tulsa The Oklahoma Eagle 1922? [72] currentWeekly [72]
Tulsa Oklahoma Sun1920 [73] 1920s [74] Weekly [73]
Tulsa The Tulsa Star /
Tulsa Daily Star		1913 [75] 1921 [75] Weekly [75]
Tulsa Tulsa Weekly Planet1910s [77] ? [77] Weekly [77]
  • Attested from at least 1912. [77]
  • Published by Prof. J.H. Hill. [77]
Wagoner The Wagoner Echo1904 [78] ? [78] Weekly [78]
Wewoka The Wewoka and Lima Courier1913 [79] ? [79] Weekly [79]
  • Edited by M.W. Williams. [79]

See also

Works cited

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Williams 1996, p. 268.
  2. ↑ Williams 1996, p. 273.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 56, ¶ 574.
  4. ↑ "About Indian Territory sun. [volume] (Ardmore, I.T. [Okla.]) 1902-1906". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  5. 1 2 3 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 441, ¶ 4592.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 621, ¶ 6490.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 64, ¶ 654.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 110, ¶ 1152.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 112, ¶ 1153.
  10. 1 2 "About The Boley progress. [volume] (Boley, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1926". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  11. 1 2 3 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 112, ¶ 1154.
  12. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 112, ¶ 1155.
  13. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 112, ¶ 1162.
  14. ↑ "About The Castle news. (Castle, Okla.) 1908-????". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  15. 1 2 3 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 138, ¶ 1434.
  16. 1 2 3 "About The Clarksville echo. (Clarksville, I.T. [Okla.]) 190?-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  17. 1 2 3 4 "About Clearview tribune. [volume] (Clear View, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1904-1904". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
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  20. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 455, ¶ 4741.
  21. 1 2 3 4 "About The Fallis blade. (Fallis, Lincoln County, Okla.) 1904-190?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  22. 1 2 3 4 "About The Garvin pioneer. [volume] (Garvin, Okla.) 190?-191?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
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  26. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 441, ¶ 4591.
  27. 1 2 3 4 5 "About The Peoples elevator. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1922-194?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  28. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 259, ¶ 2721.
  29. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 608, ¶ 6357.
  30. 1 2 3 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 152, ¶ 1583.
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  32. 1 2 3 "About The Langston City herald. [online resource] (Langston City, Okla.) 1891-1902". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  33. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 610, ¶ 6380.
  34. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 406, ¶ 4235.
  35. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 333, ¶ 3482.
  36. 1 2 "About The Lawton Oklahoma eagle. (Lawton, Okla.) 1978-198?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  37. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 378, ¶ 3949.
  38. 1 2 3 4 "About The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  39. 1 2 3 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 380, ¶ 3971.
  40. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 380, ¶ 3972.
  41. 1 2 3 "About Creek Baptist herald. (Muskogee, Okla.) 1911-191?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  42. 1 2 3 "About The Daily search-light. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1905-190?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  43. 1 2 3 4 "About The Dispensation. [volume] (Muskogee, I.T. [Okla.]) 1905-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  44. 1 2 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 381, ¶ 3973.
  45. 1 2 "About The Muskogee lantern. [volume] (Muskogee, Okla.) 1927-194?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  46. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 440, ¶ 4589.
  47. 1 2 3 "About The Oklahoma independent. (Muskogee, Okla.) 1936-196?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
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  49. 1 2 3 4 "About The pioneer. [volume] (Muscogee, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1898-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  50. 1 2 3 4 5 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 502, ¶ 5235.
  51. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 532, ¶ 5550.
  52. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 381, ¶ 3975.
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  54. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 554, ¶ 5788.
  55. 1 2 3 4 "About The Weekly progress. [volume] (Muskogee, Okla.) 1926-1926". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  56. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 612, ¶ 6402.
  57. 1 2 3 "About The black advocate. (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1992-1993". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
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  61. 1 2 "About The guide. (Oklahoma City, Okla. Territory) 1897-1903". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  62. 1 2 3 "About The Oklahoma City guide. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 19??-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  63. 1 2 3 4 5 "About The Oklahoma dispatch. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1981-198?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  64. 1 2 3 "About The Oklahoma tribune. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1907-191?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  65. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "About The Western world. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 190?-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  66. 1 2 3 "About The Okmulgee observer. [microfilm reel] (Okmulgee, Okla.) 19??-????". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  67. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 441, ¶ 4594.
  68. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 450, ¶ 4695.
  69. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 450, ¶ 4696.
  70. 1 2 3 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 552, ¶ 5759.
  71. 1 2 3 4 "About The Tulsa guide. (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1906-190?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  72. 1 2 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 440, ¶ 4588.
  73. 1 2 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 441, ¶ 4593.
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  75. 1 2 3 "About The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
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  77. 1 2 3 4 5 "About Tulsa weekly planet. (Tulsa, Okla.) 191?-19??". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  78. 1 2 3 "About The Wagoner echo. (Wagoner, I.T. [Okla.]) 1904-190?". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  79. 1 2 3 4 Danky & Hady 1998, p. 613, ¶ 6404.
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