Cities in Oklahoma that were founded by blacks?

Answer 1

Some no longer exist or only exist as Oklahoma Ghost Towns. Others have changed their image or erased their Historocal roots. Here are a few that still appear:

Arcadia,

Boley,

Langston,

Red Bird,

Rentiesville,

Taft,

Tallahassee.

Vernon and

Wewoka.

It must be remmbered from a historical perspective that thousands of Black Slaves marched to Oklahoma as a part of the forced migration to Indian Territory as a result of the Indian Removal Act and that Oklahoma was once considered for admission to the Union as a Majority or All Black State.

As an added historical note, in many of the early Black African American Towns established by Freedmen in Oklahoma, from Native American Tribes, the town's top leadership position was not a Mayor or Town Council but a Town King who ruled because of ancient, pre-enslavement African traditon.