East of DeKalb, Bowie County, Texas and a few miles south of the Red River is the tiny community of Garland.

Little Ark once sat along Hickory Creek in Love County, Oklahoma (1902, USGS) I decided to nose around my favorite maps and find places...

The Coincoin-Prudhomme house along the Cane River in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana was documented by the Historic Buildings Survey in...

In 1937, George Conrad, a former Buffalo Soldier, was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project.

Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...

The Blevins Training School was a high school during the era of segregation in Hempstead County, Arkansas.

Tatums, Carter County, Oklahoma, experienced an oil boom as the home to the first African-American owned oil operation.

Alvin Reeves, a Great War soldier, is buried in the segregated portion of Gates Hill Cemetery in Bonham, Texas.

An oral history about Dr. Martin Luther King's visit to Shreveport in the 1950s.

Oak Hill Industrial School, an academy for Choctaw freedmen, was established in 1869.

The Farmers Improvement College near Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas was designed for agricultural and domestic training.

Lucinda Davis, a person enslaved by the Creeks and a resident of former Indian Territory, was interviewed and photographed by the Federal...

The Douglass Separate School in Roosevelt, Oklahoma.

Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace histrory. And the history from the tombstone needn’t be a family member,...

The Red River Valley of the South still contains the remnants of segregation inside many of its cemeteries.