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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 ...
Roscoe Dunjee (1883–1965) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, and editor in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.He founded the Black Dispatch in 1915, the first black newspaper in Oklahoma City, and used it as a platform to support civil rights and reveal injustices.
The Donnelly Murders. Kelley, Thomas P. (1954). The Black Donnellys: The True Story of Canada's Most Barbaric Feud. Kelley, Thomas P. (1962). Vengeance of The Black Donnellys: Canada's Most Feared Family Strikes Back from The Grave. Edwards, Peter (2005). Night Justice: The True Story of the Black Donnellys. Key Porter Books. Fazakas, Ray (1977).
The Black Dispatch (1914–1982) was an African- American weekly newspaper published in Oklahoma City. [1] [2] Roscoe Dunjee was the paper's editor. [3] Dunjee was an influence on Ralph Ellison, who was a courier for the paper. [4] Under the editorial guidance of Dunjee, the paper maintained significant circulation, especially outside of Oklahoma.
Davis, a native of Missouri, came to Oklahoma in 2020 through the Tulsa Remote Program and served for a time as town manager for Tullahassee, the oldest of the surviving Black townships in the state.
Taylor worked as an attorney for a private firm in Oklahoma City from 1981 until 1988. She then moved to Tulsa in 1989 and became the vice president and general counsel of Thrifty Car Rental. Taylor eventually bought National Car Rental from General Motors. She and her husband eventually sold the company and started the Lobeck Taylor Foundation.
They had six children, three sons and three daughters, and 16 grandchildren. [11] He was the uncle of Bill LaFortune, who served as Mayor of Tulsa (2002–2006). [4] [7] LaFortune died in Tulsa on March 27, 2024, at the age of 97. His death was announced the following day by his grandson G. T. Bynum, mayor of Tulsa at the time. [12]
Desegregation would begin in the 1960s, with the Oklahoma City government banning businesses from discriminating on the basis of race in June 1964, a month before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. [19] The predominantly African-American Deep Deuce neighborhood of Oklahoma City was bulldozed in the 1980s to make way for construction of ...