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Memorial 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.
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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 moreOh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet – to rise anew!
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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This U.S. federal holiday is observed on the last Monday of May to honor the men and women who have died while serving in the military. In 2020, Memorial Day will be observed on Monday, May 25.
Read moreTULSA, Okla. --- Join Tulsa City-County Library for its first Historic All-Black Town Commemoration. This special virtual event offers a unique opportunity to explore and discuss the many historic all-black towns of Oklahoma.
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