Black Gold: The Simmons Family of Oklahoma An African-American Oil Dynasty By Jill Nelson. It is the rare bio...

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A Biography that reads like a novel   The visions of equality and acceptance that had kept hope alive in ...

Unlikely Oil Magnate He was a militant, a patriot, a African nationalist, and an American capitalist all wrapp...

Black gold: Jake Simmons Jr.’s oil dynasty   ‘How the hell can a black man stay in bed in the mornin...

Staking A Claim: The Story Of Black Indians And Oil In Oklahoma   As there are among the Creeks many pers...

Deep Roots of Black History Month   The idea goes back nearly 70 years. In the 1920s while teaching in th...