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The Descendants of Oklahoma Black Homesteaders oral history collection is a partnership between the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program and Dr. Kalenda Eaton, Director of the larger Descendants of Oklahoma Black Homesteaders Project funded by the U.S. National Park Service in partnership with the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Oklahoma.

Subjects
Call Number DBH
Dates 2023 -

Interviews in Descendants of Black Homesteaders

Oral History Interview Description
C. Derrick Jones III 12/14/2023 C. Derrick Jones III, fifth generation owner of a parcel of land homesteaded prior to Oklahoma statehood, shares how his family came to be in Logan County, Oklahoma, back in the late 1800s. He recalls…
Carla Holmes 12/04/2023 Carla Holmes, fifth generation Oklahoman, shares how her family came to be in Lincoln County, Oklahoma back in the late 1800s. She discusses her heritage, memories of her grandparents and great-grandparents,…
Deborah Dobbins 02/09/2024 Deborah Dobbins, third generation Canadian, explains her family’s part in helping to settle the prairies of Western Canada. She talks about the community of Wildwood where they were placed when they entered…
Paul Caldwell & Nellie Caldwell 12/07/2023 Paul and Nellie Caldwell, siblings, recall their youth in Sweet Home, Oklahoma, in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. They share how their family came to Oklahoma in the 1890s and homesteaded. They talk about the…