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The Muskogee Cimeter 1904-10-06
Front page of a 1904 issue of The Muskogee Cimeter, containing a speech marking the establishment of Rentiesville or Rentiville.

This is a list of African-American newspapers that have been published in the state of Oklahoma. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first known African-American newspaper in Oklahoma was the Oklahoma Guide (distinct from the later Guthrie publication of the same name), which was a monthly newspaper published in Oklahoma City in 1889. The state's first weekly African-American newspaper was The Langston City Herald in 1891.

Many of these early Oklahoma newspapers were published in the many all-Black towns established after the Land Run of 1889. Langston City in particular was home to eleven newspapers from 1891 to 1913.

Notable African-American newspapers in Oklahoma today include The Black Chronicle of Oklahoma City and The Oklahoma Eagle of Tulsa.

Newspapers

City Title Beginning End Frequency Call numbers Remarks
Ardmore The Avalanche 1908 ? Weekly
  • Edited by B. J. F. Wesbrooks, G. B. Richards.
Ardmore The Oklahoma Sun
Indian Territory Sun
Sun		 1902 1906 Weekly
  • Indian Territory Sun:
  • The Oklahoma Sun:
Ardmore The World 1907 ? Weekly
  • Edited by B.C. Franklin.
Boley The Beacon
Boley Beacon		 1908 ? Weekly
  • Edited by E.D. Lynwood.
Boley The Boley Informer 1909? ? Weekly
  • Published by A.L. Moore.
  • Attested through at least 1911.
Boley The Boley News 1914? ? Weekly
  • Published by A.L. Moore.
  • Billed as the “Official Organ for the Town of Boley, the Largest Exclusive Negro Town in the World.”
  • Attested through at least 1918.
Boley Boley Progress /
The Boley Progress		 1905 1926 Weekly
  • LCCN sn83025077, sn83025096
  • Published by O.H. Bradley.
Boley The Boley Trumpet 1924? ? Weekly
  • Edited by Elijah J. Burns.
Bookertee The Bookertee Searchlight 1919? ? Weekly
  • Published by I.L. Leathers.
Castle Castle News /
The Castle News		 1908 ? Weekly
Clarksville The Clarksville Echo 1900s 1900s Weekly
Clear View Clearview Tribune 1904 1904 Weekly
  • Published by B.K. Bruce.
Clearview The Lincoln Tribune 1904 1900s Weekly
  • Published by E.D. Lynwood.
Clearview The Patriarch /
The Clearview Patriarch (1911–1913)		 1911 1917 Weekly
  • LCCN sn83025116, sn83025115
  • Numerous different editors and publishers.
Fallis The Fallis Blade 1904 1900s Weekly
  • Published by G.W. Hutchins.
Garvin The Garvin Pioneer 1900s 1910s Weekly
  • Published by W.H. Carroll.
Guthrie Labor Advocate 1902 1900s Weekly
  • Published by O.O. Blesh.
Guthrie The Oklahoma Guide 1892 1922 Weekly
  • ISSN 2643-2137 2643-2137
  • LCCN sn83025066
  • Published by G.N. Perkins.
Guthrie The Oklahoma Safeguard 1894 or 1895 1915 Weekly
  • Published by Published by Buchanan Publishing Co., edited by C.A. Buchanan.
Guthrie The Peoples Elevator 1922 1940s Weekly
  • ISSN 2643-2129 2643-2129
  • LCCN sn83025058, 2014254006
  • Published in Wichita, Kansas, from February 21, 1924 to October 28, 1926; in Independence, Kansas, from November 4, 1926 to July 24, 1930; and in Kansas City, Kansas from August 19, 1937 to September 19, 1940.
  • Published by Watton Brown.
Guthrie The Guthrie Progress 1901 1905? Weekly
  • Published by O.H. Bradley.
Guthrie The Weekly Sun 1913 1914 Weekly
  • LCCN sn83025055, sn90050379
  • Edited by J. H. Hubbard.
Langston Church and State 1911 1911 Weekly
  • Edited by E. J. Vance.
Langston The Langston City Herald 1891 1902 Weekly
  • ISSN 2158-8929 2158-8929
  • LCCN 2013254045, sn83025050
Langston The Western Age 1904 1909 Weekly
  • Published and edited by S. Douglas Russell.
Lawton The New Community Guide 1970? 1977? Weekly
  • Published by Robert Goodwin and William P. Kuykendall.
Lawton The Lawton Oklahoma Eagle 1970? or 1978 1990? or 1980s Weekly
  • Published by James O. Goodwin and Edward L. Goodwin.
Mulhall The Mulhall Enterprise 1894 1911 Weekly
  • Published by Willis B. Ehrman.
Muskogee Muskogee Cimeter /
The Muskogee Cimeter		 1899 or 1901 1930 Weekly
  • ISSN 2158-8937 2158-8937
  • LCCN sn83025060
  • Published from 1904 to 1921 by William Henry Twine.
Muskogee The Muskogee Comet 1904 ? Weekly
  • Published by J.E. Toombs.
Muskogee Creek Baptist Herald 1911 1910s Weekly
Muskogee The Daily Search-Light 1905 1900s Daily (except Sunday)
Muskogee The Dispensation 1905 1900s Monthly newspaper
  • Published by D.P. Pruett.
Muskogee The Muskogee Lantern 1926 or 1927 1940s Weekly
Muskogee The Oklahoma Gazette 1910? ? Weekly
  • Edited by William Fields.
Muskogee The Oklahoma Independent 1936 1960s Weekly
  • Description based on: Vol. 26, no. 3 (Apr. 16, 1954).
  • Published by M.C. Simmons.
Muskogee The Muskogee Parrot 1940 ? Weekly
  • Edited by C. E. Corbett.
Muskogee The Pioneer 1898 1900s Weekly
  • Edited from 1898 to 1904 by William Henry Twine. Edited subsequently by William A. Rentie.
Muskogee Saturday Evening Tribune 1912 ? Weekly
  • Edited by S. Douglas Russell.
  • Extant through at least 1913.
Muskogee Southwesterner 1905 ? Weekly
  • Edited by J.T. Nicholson.
Muskogee The Muskogee Star 1912 1912 or 1913 Weekly
Muskogee The Tattler 1915 1917 Weekly
  • Published by Ernest D. Lynwood and Robert Jase.
Muskogee The Weekly Progress 1926 1926 Weekly
  • Edited and published by O.H. Bradley.
Muskogee The Western World 1902 ? Weekly
  • Edited by J. C. Leftwich.
Oklahoma City The Black Advocate 1992 1993 Weekly
Oklahoma City The Black Chronicle 1979 current Weekly
Oklahoma City The Black Dispatch 1915 1982 Weekly
  • LCCN sn94084058, sn83025214
  • Published by Richard Keaton Nash.
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma City Guide /
The Guide (1898–1903)		 1897 or 1898 1900s Weekly
  • LCCN sn95076408
  • The Guide:
  • Attested through at least 1910.
  • Published by Mattie M. Mallory.
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Dispatch 1981 1980s Weekly
  • Attested through at least 1983.
  • Published by Richard Keaton Nash.
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Guide 1889 1889 Monthly / "sporadic"
  • "We know little else about the journal except the fact of its existence."
Oklahoma City The Oklahoma Tribune 1907 1910s Weekly
Oklahoma City The Western World 1900s 1900s Weekly
  • "Published in the interest of the Sango Baptist College and Industrial Institute as well as the Baptist denomination of the Indian Territory."
  • Attested from at least 1903 to 1905.
  • Published by J.C. Leftwich and J.W. Capers.
Okmulgee The Okmulgee Observer 1900s 0000s Weekly
  • LCCN sn94091010, sn93062827
  • Description based on: Vol. 6, no. 13 (Feb. 12, 1942).
  • Microfilm.
Okmulgee The Okmulgee Observer 1937? ? Weekly
  • LCCN sn94091010, sn93062827
  • Published and edited by B.J. Wilson.
  • Attested through at least 1942.
Paden The Paden Press 1908 1909 Weekly
  • Published and edited by John Young Bryce.
Paden The Paden Times 1907? 1908 Weekly
  • Published by E.E. Tabor and S.T. Peet.
Taft Taft Enterprise 1910 1914 Weekly
Tulsa The Tulsa Guide 1906 1900s Weekly
  • Published by W.L. McKee.
Tulsa The Oklahoma Eagle 1922? current Weekly
  • ISSN 0745-385X 0745-385X
  • LCCN sn94081660, sn83000748, sn96047413
Tulsa Oklahoma Sun 1920 1920s Weekly
Tulsa The Tulsa Star /
Tulsa Daily Star		 1913 1921 Weekly
  • ISSN 2163-4866 2163-4866
  • LCCN sn86064118
  • Edited and Published by A.J. Smitherman
  • Suffered a "dramatic and untimely demise" following the Tulsa massacre of May 31, 1921. >
Tulsa Tulsa Weekly Planet 1910s ? Weekly
  • Attested from at least 1912.
  • Published by Prof. J.H. Hill.
Wagoner The Wagoner Echo 1904 ? Weekly
Wewoka The Wewoka and Lima Courier 1913 ? Weekly
  • Edited by M.W. Williams.
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