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Mae Hudson Valedictorian Wetumka
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SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE BASKETBALL HEAD COACH DON TULEY honored the Seminole County Ministerial Alliance with the Crusaders in the Community Award at halftime during the men’s basketball game on Feb. 27 at the Raymond Harber Field House. The award was established three years ago to honor local African Americans making a difference. The award is given during Black History Month each year. The Ministerial Alliance was selected for its commitment to fundraising in an effort to provide scholarships to SSC students. Pictured (l-r) Coach Tuley, Reginald Woods, Calissa Woods, Marilyn Guient, Willie Guient, Wilma Berry, Regina Robison, John Berry, Shelly Brown, Darrell Brown, Reginald Wright and Frank Washington.
Read moreIf you have any news about the Clearview area and would like it published contact Shirley at 405-786-2400 or email at annnero@aol.com
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The town of Langston in Logan County is located on State Highway 33, ten miles northeast of Guthrie. The name honors John Mercer Langston, an African American educator and 51st United States Congress from Virginia. Because Langston and Brooksville began in Oklahoma Territory, they differ from the other thirteen surviving All-Black towns. An African American political figure from Kansas. McCabe helped lead a migration of black settlers from southern U.S. states who hoped to escape discrimination by creating a majority-black state in what was then the Territory of Oklahoma. Although E. P. McCabe has been credited for founding the town, Charles Robbins, a white man, owned the land and filed a town survey and plat in 1891. The two men opened the town on April 22, 1890. McCabe used traveling salesmen and African American newspapers to advertise lots for sale in Langston, and the deeds which accompanied the sale of these lots stipulated that their re-sale could only be to other African Americans. McCabe initiated the Langston City Herald in October 1890, using it to promote African American migration to Oklahoma and the newborn Langston community.
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Edward P. McCabe was born in 1850 and died in 1920. As a land developer and speculator, a lawyer, an immigration promoter, a newspaper owner, and a politician, E. P. McCabe was an important contributor to the Oklahoma scene. Oklahoma Territory was a late-nineteenth-century place of dreams for hundreds of thousands of Americans and recent immigrants. It was a place of myth and reality, then. For African Americans who were still pursuing the fulfillment of a promise they believed had been made to them during and immediately after the Civil War, Oklahoma had special, perhaps even urgent appeal. Edward (or Edwin) P. (Preston?) McCabe was one of the African Americans who came to the territory in search not only of his dream
Read moreMemorial Day is near. If you will not be able to come to the cemeteries in Clearview and would like to donate for the maintenance of the cemetery, please send your contributions to Town of Clearview, 302 West Main, Clearview, Ok 74880. We depend on you. Please continue your prayers for Joyce Barrett as she goes through radiation for next several weeks. Also, asking for prayers for Christopher Stripling, Sharon Johnson Patton, Elder L. C. Carson, Cornell Lucas, Marjorie Plunkett, Marguerite French, Billy Walker as they continue to recover. Remember to stay home and if you go out, keep your distances and work together to defeat this virus. Prayers going out to the country for those suffering from the results COVID-19 and for who have lost their jobs. Please help when you can.
Read moreThis year, TCCL is educating Tulsans about Oklahoma’s all-black towns in a new way. Alicia Latimer will facilitate a discussion among a panel of historians, including Jimmie White, Shirley Nero and Karla Slocum, Ph.D.
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