Green Corn Rebellion | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=GR022
> Triggered by opposition to WWI and the draft, this tenant farmers' revolt broke out in three counties along Oklahoma's South Canadian River in August 1917. While antiwar sentiments fueled the Green Corn Rebellion, it actually grew from long-standing grievances many tenants held against local landowners, businessmen, and state and local authorities. ...
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P.M.G. New and Leon H. Moore with Oklahoma state flag, 8/8/1924
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016849364/
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24-year anniversary of 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak - KTEN
https://www.kten.com/story/48845175/24year-anniversary-of-may-34-1999-tornado-outbreak
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Oklahoma City Bombing — FBI (April 19, 1995)
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/oklahoma-city-bombing
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Why Fort Reno Cemetery works to keep memory of WWII POWs alive
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/history/2023/04/09/why-fort-reno-cemetery-works-to-keep-memory-of-wwii-pows-alive/69982912007/
US Senators want Route 66 to be declared a National Historic Trail
http://www.okenergytoday.com/2022/12/us-senators-want-route-66-to-be-declared-a-national-historic-trail/
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Broken Bow monument celebrates Choctaw Code Talkers
https://www.kten.com/story/47828419/broken-bow-monument-celebrates-choctaw-code-talkers
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Photos Needed.
If you're in the Adair County / Stilwell, Oklahoma area we're looking for photos of these historical markers, located here: https://goo.gl/maps/Bdwons1f7fawjLAp6
One of these markers should be for Fairfield Mission.
For Exploring Oklahoma History:
http://blogoklahoma.us/county/adair
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Remember Oklahoma’s violent history, or be condemned to repeat it
https://nondoc.com/2022/10/27/remember-oklahomas-violent-history/
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Terence Crutcher Foundation unveils historical marker in Greenwood District
https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/local-regional/2022-09-14/terence-crutcher-foundation-unveils-historical-marker-in-greenwood-district
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Letter: Oklahoma Historical Society suffers a major loss
https://tulsaworld.com/opinion/letters/letter-oklahoma-historical-society-suffers-a-major-loss/article_9135f1ae-2efd-11ed-a612-dbc90132b34a.html#tracking-source=mp-homepage
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'My mother would be joyous,' says Clara Luper's daughter at sit-in monument announcement
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2022/03/24/okc-katz-drug-store-sit-in-clara-luper-honored-monument/7127084001/
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Black History is Oklahoma History
https://www.okhistory.org/blackhistory
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Thursday, January 21, 1971
Oklahoma's U.S. Representative Carl Albert was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Albert
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April 14, 1935. - Black Sunday (storm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(storm)
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OKC historic Black landmark, once threatened, added to National Register of Historic Places
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2021/04/05/oklahoma-city-brockway-center-black-landmark-national-register-historic-places/7052062002/
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First Shelterbelt in the United States
Near Mangum, Oklahoma
http://blogoklahoma.us/place.aspx?id=397
> During the 1930s severe drought plagued the states in the great plains and deepened the depression. High winds caused dust storms which blackened the sky. In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt initiated a program to help stabilize the blowing soil and put people to work.
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Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles
https://open.spotify.com/show/0Dles4noHYTKoBBaUELWsz?si=De_jM95VSVGgwlRMN-K4Tg
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Marker installed outside Vernon AME Church is first element of Black Wall Street memorial project (9/19/2020)
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/marker-installed-outside-vernon-ame-church-is-first-element-of-black-wall-street-memorial-project/article_02d8ae16-faba-11ea-9ed5-f3c04a6eb17a.html
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Grave robbers nearly destroyed one of Oklahoma's most precious archaeological sites
https://tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/michael-overall-grave-robbers-nearly-destroyed-one-of-oklahomas-most-precious-archaeological-sites/article_4ae6e258-4bb0-11eb-8a34-2b10f5f6d56d.html#tracking-source=mastodon
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