Devine Monetta Edited Phyllis Paul (1 results)

Plastic comb binding. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. White pictorial cover with clear laminate. A very informal compilation of family stories and history, illustrated throughout with photocopied photographs and articles. "Stories about some of the Black and White families who came to settle in Altus, Oklahoma and the surrounding area." Altus is located in Jackson County; many of these families had left southern states after the Civil War and settled in Texas before moving permanently to Oklahoma. A few of the surnames mentioned include Allen, Booker, Brown, Copeland, Crowley, Daggett, Dixon, Fields, Gaffney, Hamilton, Hart, Hazzard, Jackson, Lucas, Pollard, Washington, Williams, Wilson, Wright. This is an invaluable collection providing first hand accounts of Black families and their experiences in Oklahoma during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.; MCN35872; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 266 pp.