IMPACT: BLACKS IN OKLAHOMA HISTORY 2ND EDITION (HARDBACK)

This 2nd Edition book includes up-to-date information from the first edition and has also added  a tribal section with information about the importance of Blacks within the 5 Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma.  Impact:  Blacks In Oklahoma History is a resource book of events and people in the African American communities of the forty-sixth state of the union.  It follows chronologically events from before the Trail of Tears, The Land Runs to the Tulsa Race Riots and Oklahoma City Sit-Ins.  Stories are included from personal interviews of individuals who made important civil rights contributions to state history.  The book is rich with photographs helping to tell the story of the impact African Americans have had on the state and on the nation.  Included are chapters on civil rights leader Clara Luper, baseball great Joe Carter, basketball icon and musician Wayman Tisdale, as well as Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, Roscoe Dunjee, Portwood Williams (grandfather of rapper Kanye West), All-Black Towns, the Buffalo Soldiers, Desegregation and much more.