African American Interviews from

the Oklahoma Indian Pioneer Project

This page will reflect interviews of Black Indians from the Oklahoma Pioneer Project.  Over 100 volumes of interviews of early Oklahoma and Indian Territory citizens were made, of people white, black and Indian.  This page will highlight the interviews pertaining to the Freedmen, which shall reflect a glimpse of the lives of the 19th century African-ancestored residents of Indian Territory.

Jackson Barnett

Jane Davis

Lemuel Jackson

Silvinia Williams Thompson Jones

Ebenezer Kemp

Dolly Murphy

Henry Myers

Sally Nash

Lula Neighbors

Frank Russell

Harry Starr

Dennis Vann

Rachel Ward

Eliza Whitmire

 

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