Oklahoma History Academic Standards

OKH.4.2 Describe the proposal for an All-Black state advocated by Edward McCabe.

Oklahoma History Center Education Resources

Traveling Trunk
African Americans in Oklahoma

The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

Jimmie Lewis Franklin, "African Americans"
Jere Roberson, "McCabe, Edward P."
Larry O'Dell, "All-Black Towns"

Research Center Resources

Jimmie Lewis Franklin, The Blacks in Oklahoma. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980)

Additional Resources

Miguel Rios, "Black State." Oklahoma Gazette, February 21, 2020
Jere W. Roberson, "Edward P. McCabe and the Langston Experiment," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 51 (1973)

---

Back to the Oklahoma History list