{"id":11671,"date":"2011-12-06T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T18:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=11671"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:35:05","slug":"melissa-stuckey-research-matters-fall-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/melissa-stuckey-research-matters-fall-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Stuckey: Research Matters Fall 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-11672\" href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?attachment_id=11672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11672\" title=\"Winter_11_CSWS_RM_Page_1\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Winter_11_CSWS_RM_Page_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Winter_11_CSWS_RM_Page_1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Winter_11_CSWS_RM_Page_1-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Winter_11_CSWS_RM_Page_1-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>\u201cWhy Oklahoma? All-Black Towns and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Indian Territory,\u201d by Melissa H. Stuckey, Assistant Professor, UO Department of History<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Stuckey\u2019s paper is now available online in the <a title=\"Why Oklahoma?\" href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/docs\/publications\/ResearchMatters\/Winter_11_CSWS_RM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fall 2011<\/a> issue of <em>CSWS Research Matters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From her paper:<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many people it comes as a surprise to learn that dozens of all-black towns were established in Oklahoma during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Two of the most frequent questions that I receive when relaying this fact are: \u2018Why all-black towns?\u2019 and \u2018Why Oklahoma?\u2019 My response to these questions tends to begin with an understanding nod and smile. Indeed, it was my own very similar set of questions that drew me to the study of Oklahoma\u2019s black towns more than ten years ago.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy forthcoming book, tentatively titled <em>Race, Rights, and Power: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Boley, Oklahoma<\/em>, sheds new light on the history of all-black towns in Oklahoma through the story of Boley, the largest all-black town in the United States. Boley was one of over a dozen black towns founded in Indian Territory (the eastern half of the current state of Oklahoma). The towns attracted thousands of African Americans seeking to escape the racism and violence that dominated the American landscape during the Jim Crow era, and to live their lives independent of white surveillance and control. As one settler explained: In Boley, \u2018nobody came in and tried to tell them what they could do and what they couldn\u2019t do.\u2019\u201d <a title=\"full text\" href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/docs\/publications\/ResearchMatters\/Winter_11_CSWS_RM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For the full text &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy Oklahoma? All-Black Towns and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Indian Territory,\u201d by Melissa H. Stuckey, Assistant Professor, UO Department of History Melissa Stuckey\u2019s paper is now available online in the Fall 2011 issue of CSWS Research Matters. From&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/melissa-stuckey-research-matters-fall-2011\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-affiliates","category-research-matters","category-women-of-color-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11671"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32610,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions\/32610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}