This post honors Black History Month with three stories about Invisible Black History in Oklahoma City before statehood, and largely tracks my presentation to RetroMetro OKC at the downtown library on February 17, 2014. A few additional materials and resources are...
Oklahoma’s First Presidential Vote Was For The Man Above This being a presidential election year, I thought it might be fun to review Oklahoma’s votes for President of the United States after we were granted that opportunity, which is a 100-year period of...
Originally posted July 24, 2012; edited on August 20-25, 2012, to add interactive flash video of Bird Gee’s real property interests in Oklahoma County and to complete this article. July 19, 2012 110 Years Ago, Circa 1902 Looking into that field of black jack...
I am constantly reminded, one way or another, about how much I DON’T know about Oklahoma City history and what a relatively untapped and deep well that it truly is. The thing which eventually led to my awareness of Marilyn Hudson was an unsolicited email on June...
