List of African American newspapers in Oklahoma

List of Oklahoma African American newspapers
Front page of a 1904 issue of The Muskogee Cimeter, containing a speech marking the establishment of Rentiesville or Rentiville.

This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of Oklahoma. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first known African American newspaper in Oklahoma was the Oklahoma Guide (distinct from the later Guthrie publication of the same name), which was a monthly newspaper published in Oklahoma City in 1889.[1] The state's first weekly African American newspaper was The Langston City Herald in 1891.[1]

Many of these early Oklahoma newspapers were published in the many all-Black towns established after the Land Run of 1889. Langston City in particular was home to eleven newspapers from 1891 to 1913.[2]

Notable African American newspapers in Oklahoma today include The Black Chronicle of Oklahoma City and The Oklahoma Eagle of Tulsa.

Newspapers

City Title Beginning End Frequency Call numbers Remarks


Ardmore The Avalanche 1908[3] ?[3] Weekly[3]
  • LCCN sn97070143
  • OCLC 37472030
  • Edited by B. J. F. Wesbrooks, G. B. Richards.[3]
Ardmore The Oklahoma Sun
Indian Territory Sun[5]
Sun
1902[4] 1906[4] Weekly[4]
  • Indian Territory Sun:
    • LCCN sn93050594
    • OCLC 28824424
  • The Oklahoma Sun:
    • LCCN sn93050592
    • OCLC 28824436
Ardmore The World 1907[6] ?[6] Weekly[6]
  • Edited by B.C. Franklin.[6]
Boley The Beacon
Boley Beacon
1908[7] ?[7] Weekly[7]
  • LCCN sn83025053
  • OCLC 9237325
  • Edited by E.D. Lynwood.[7]
Boley The Boley Informer 1909?[8] ?[8] Weekly[8]
  • LCCN sn83025054
  • OCLC 9237376
  • Published by A.L. Moore.[8]
  • Attested through at least 1911.[8]
Boley The Boley News 1914?[9] ?[9] Weekly[9]
  • LCCN sn83025100
  • OCLC 9241485
  • Published by A.L. Moore.[9]
  • Billed as the “Official Organ for the Town of Boley, the Largest Exclusive Negro Town in the World.”[9]
  • Attested through at least 1918.[9]
Boley Boley Progress /
The Boley Progress[11]
1905[10] 1926[10] Weekly[10]
  • LCCN sn83025077, sn83025096
  • OCLC 9238133, 9239064
  • Published by O.H. Bradley.[11]
Boley The Boley Trumpet 1924?[12] ?[12] Weekly[12]
  • Edited by Elijah J. Burns.[12]
Bookertee The Bookertee Searchlight 1919?[13] ?[13] Weekly[13]
  • LCCN sn83025126
  • OCLC 9263135
  • Published by I. L. Leathers.[13]
Castle Castle News /
The Castle News[15]
1908[14] ?[14] Weekly[14]
  • LCCN sn83025099
  • OCLC 9241424
Clarksville The Clarksville Echo 1900s[16] 1900s[16] Weekly[16]
  • LCCN sn96087762
  • OCLC 34744591
Clear View Clearview Tribune 1904[17] 1904[17] Weekly[17]
  • LCCN sn83025118
  • OCLC 9259034
  • Published by B.K. Bruce.[17]
Clearview The Lincoln Tribune 1904[18] 1900s[18] Weekly[18]
  • LCCN sn83025117
  • OCLC 9258639
  • Published by E.D. Lynwood.[18]
Clearview The Patriarch /
The Clearview Patriarch (1911–1913)[20]
1911[19] 1917[19] Weekly[19]
  • LCCN sn83025116, sn83025115
  • OCLC 9258714, 9258582
  • Numerous different editors and publishers.[19]
Fallis The Fallis Blade 1904[21] 1900s[21] Weekly[21]
  • LCCN sn93050458
  • OCLC 26577557
  • Published by G.W. Hutchins.[21]
Garvin The Garvin Pioneer 1900s[22] 1910s[22] Weekly[22]
  • LCCN sn94058805
  • OCLC 30330780
  • Published by W.H. Carroll.[22]
Guthrie Labor Advocate 1902[23] 1900s[23] Weekly[23]
  • LCCN sn83025114
  • OCLC 9248082
  • Published by O.O. Blesh.[23]
Guthrie The Oklahoma Guide 1892[24] 1922[24] Weekly[24]
  • ISSN 2643-2137
  • LCCN sn83025066
  • OCLC 9235221
  • Published by G.N. Perkins.[24]
Guthrie The Oklahoma Safeguard 1894[26] or 1895[25] 1915[25] Weekly[25]
  • LCCN sn83025056
  • OCLC 9237789
  • Published by Published by Buchanan Publishing Co., edited by C.A. Buchanan.[25]
Guthrie The Peoples Elevator 1922[27] 1940s[27] Weekly[27]
  • ISSN 2643-2129, 2643-2110
  • LCCN sn83025058, 2014254006
  • OCLC 9237938, 664611343
  • Published in Wichita, Kansas, from February 21, 1924 to October 28, 1926; in Independence, Kansas, from November 4, 1926 to July 24, 1930; and in Kansas City, Kansas from August 19, 1937 to September 19, 1940.[27]
  • Published by Watton Brown.[27]
Guthrie The Guthrie Progress 1901[28] 1905?[28] Weekly[28]
  • LCCN sn83025045
  • OCLC 9226755
  • Published by O.H. Bradley.[28]
Guthrie The Weekly Sun 1913[29] 1914[29] Weekly[29]
  • LCCN sn83025055, sn90050379
  • OCLC 9237755, 23011591
  • Edited by J. H. Hubbard.[29]
Langston Church and State 1911[31] 1911[30] Weekly[31]
  • LCCN sn83025133
  • OCLC 9266557
  • Edited by E. J. Vance.[31]
Langston The Langston City Herald 1891[32] 1902[32] Weekly[32]
  • ISSN 2158-8929
  • LCCN 2013254045, sn83025050
  • OCLC 732734625, 9227089
Langston The Western Age 1904[33] 1909[33] Weekly[33]
  • LCCN sn83025002
  • OCLC 9213788
  • Published and edited by S. Douglas Russell.[33]
Lawton The New Community Guide 1970?[34] 1977?[34] Weekly[34]
  • Published by Robert Goodwin and William P. Kuykendall.[34]
Lawton The Lawton Oklahoma Eagle 1970?[35] or 1978[36] 1990?[35] or 1980s[36] Weekly[35]
  • LCCN sn96087690
  • OCLC 34573156
  • Published by James O. Goodwin and Edward L. Goodwin.[35]
Mulhall The Mulhall Enterprise 1894[37] 1911[37] Weekly[37]
  • LCCN sn83025132
  • OCLC 9266447, 26568162
  • Published by Willis B. Ehrman.[37]
Muskogee Muskogee Cimeter /
The Muskogee Cimeter[39]
1899[38] or 1901[39] 1930[38] Weekly[38]
  • ISSN 2158-8937
  • LCCN sn83025060
  • OCLC 9228536
Muskogee The Muskogee Comet 1904[40] ?[40] Weekly[40]
  • LCCN sn83025061
  • OCLC 9228600
  • Published by J.E. Toombs.[40]
Muskogee Creek Baptist Herald 1911[41] 1910s[41] Weekly[41]
  • LCCN sn95076200
  • OCLC 33342854
Muskogee The Daily Search-Light 1905[42] 1900s[42] Daily (except Sunday)[42]
  • LCCN sn83025098
  • OCLC 9239162
Muskogee The Dispensation 1905[43] 1900s[43] Monthly newspaper[43]
  • LCCN sn83025059
  • OCLC 9228491
  • Published by D.P. Pruett.[43]
Muskogee The Muskogee Lantern 1926[45] or 1927[44] 1940s[44] Weekly[45]
  • LCCN sn83025097
  • OCLC 9239073
Muskogee The Oklahoma Gazette 1910?[46] ?[46] Weekly[46]
  • Edited by William Fields.[46]
Muskogee The Oklahoma Independent 1936[47] 1960s[47] Weekly[47]
  • LCCN sn97064771
  • OCLC 36421194
  • Description based on: Vol. 26, no. 3 (Apr. 16, 1954).
  • Published by M.C. Simmons.
Muskogee The Muskogee Parrot 1940[48] ?[48] Weekly[48]
  • Edited by C. E. Corbett.[48]
Muskogee The Pioneer 1898[49] 1900s[49] Weekly[49]
  • LCCN sn83025062
  • OCLC 9228966
Muskogee Saturday Evening Tribune 1912[50] ?[50] Weekly[50]
  • LCCN sn83025067
  • OCLC 9230030
  • Edited by S. Douglas Russell.[50]
  • Extant through at least 1913.[50]
Muskogee Southwesterner 1905[51] ?[51] Weekly[51]
  • LCCN sn83025072
  • OCLC 9230297
  • Edited by J.T. Nicholson.[51]
Muskogee The Muskogee Star 1912[52] 1912[52] or 1913[53] Weekly[52]
  • LCCN sn83025068
  • OCLC 9230090
Muskogee The Tattler 1915[54] 1917[54] Weekly[54]
  • LCCN sn83025091
  • OCLC 9238744
  • Published by Ernest D. Lynwood and Robert Jase.[54]
Muskogee The Weekly Progress 1926[55] 1926[55] Weekly[55]
  • LCCN sn83025096
  • OCLC 9239064
  • Edited and published by O.H. Bradley.[55]
Muskogee The Western World 1902[56] ?[56] Weekly[56]
  • LCCN sn83025073
  • OCLC 9230324
  • Edited by J. C. Leftwich.[56]
Oklahoma City The Black Advocate 1992[57] 1993[57] Weekly[57]
  • LCCN sn96087666
  • OCLC 34527902
Oklahoma City The Black Chronicle 1979[58] current Weekly[58]
  • LCCN sn95076331
  • OCLC 19836563
  • Official site
Oklahoma City The Black Dispatch 1915[59] 1982[59] Weekly[59]
  • LCCN sn94084058, sn83025214
  • OCLC 32353111, 2258388, 18776696, 5149734
  • Published by Richard Keaton Nash.[59]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma City Guide /
The Guide (1898–1903)[61]
1897[62] or 1898[61] 1900s[60] Weekly[60]
  • LCCN sn95076408
  • OCLC 34037722
  • The Guide:
    • LCCN 2012254014
    • OCLC 770747612
  • Attested through at least 1910.[60]
  • Published by Mattie M. Mallory.[62]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Dispatch 1981[63] 1980s[63] Weekly[63]
  • LCCN sn95076087
  • OCLC 32900258
  • Attested through at least 1983.[63]
  • Published by Richard Keaton Nash.[63]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Guide 1889[1] 1889[1] Monthly / "sporadic"[1]
  • "We know little else about the journal except the fact of its existence."[1]
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Tribune 1907[64] 1910s[64] Weekly[64]
  • LCCN sn95076328
  • OCLC 33822591
Oklahoma City The Western World 1900s[65] 1900s[65] Weekly[65]
  • LCCN sn83025073
  • OCLC 9230324
  • "Published in the interest of the Sango Baptist College and Industrial Institute as well as the Baptist denomination of the Indian Territory."[65]
  • Attested from at least 1903 to 1905.[65]
  • Published by J.C. Leftwich and J.W. Capers.[65]
Okmulgee The Okmulgee Observer 1900s 0000s[66] Weekly[66]
  • LCCN sn94091010, sn93062827
  • OCLC 32651500, 27322198
  • Description based on: Vol. 6, no. 13 (Feb. 12, 1942).
  • Microfilm.
Okmulgee The Okmulgee Observer 1937?[67] ?[67] Weekly[67]
  • LCCN sn94091010, sn93062827
  • OCLC 32651500, 27322198
  • Published and edited by B.J. Wilson.[67]
  • Attested through at least 1942.[66]
Paden The Paden Press 1908[68] 1909[68] Weekly[68]
  • LCCN sn83025004
  • OCLC 9214719
  • Published and edited by John Young Bryce.[68]
Paden The Paden Times 1907?[69] 1908[69] Weekly[69]
  • LCCN sn83025003
  • OCLC 9215123
  • Published by E.E. Tabor and S.T. Peet.[69]
Taft Taft Enterprise 1910[70] 1914[70] Weekly[70]
  • LCCN sn83025011
  • OCLC 9216478
Tulsa The Tulsa Guide 1906[71] 1900s[71] Weekly[71]
  • LCCN sn93050465
  • OCLC 26577650
  • Published by W.L. McKee.[71]
Tulsa The Oklahoma Eagle 1922?[72] current Weekly[72]
  • ISSN 0745-385X
  • LCCN sn94081660, sn83000748, sn96047413
  • OCLC 32229830, 9114180, 36130353, 5150225
  • Official site
Tulsa Oklahoma Sun 1920[74] 1920s[73] Weekly[74]
  • LCCN sn93050593
  • OCLC 28824434
Tulsa The Tulsa Star /
Tulsa Daily Star
1913[75] 1921[75] Weekly[75]
  • ISSN 2163-4866
  • LCCN sn86064118
  • OCLC 28910549, 13621345
  • Free online archive
  • Edited and Published by A.J. Smitherman
  • Suffered a "dramatic and untimely demise" following the Tulsa massacre of May 31, 1921.[76] >
Tulsa Tulsa Weekly Planet 1910s[77] ?[77] Weekly[77]
  • LCCN sn93050466
  • OCLC 26577643
  • Attested from at least 1912.[77]
  • Published by Prof. J.H. Hill.[77]
Wagoner The Wagoner Echo 1904[78] ?[78] Weekly[78]
  • LCCN sn96087761
  • OCLC 34744482
Wewoka The Wewoka and Lima Courier 1913[79] ?[79] Weekly[79]
  • LCCN sn83025023
  • OCLC 9216861
  • Edited by M.W. Williams.[79]

See also

Works cited

  • Danky, James Philip; Hady, Maureen E., eds. (1998). African-American newspapers and periodicals : a national bibliography. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674007888.
  • Williams, Nudie Eugene (1996). "Oklahoma: Genesis and Tradition of the Black Press, 1889-1980". In Suggs, Henry Lewis (ed.). The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-1985.

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