# List of African American newspapers in Oklahoma

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 | LCCN sn97070143 OCLC 37472030 | Edited by B. J. F. Wesbrooks, G. B. Richards. |
| Ardmore | The Oklahoma Sun Indian Territory Sun Sun | 1902 | 1906 | Weekly | Indian Territory Sun: LCCN sn93050594 OCLC 28824424 The Oklahoma Sun: LCCN sn93050592 OCLC 28824436 | |
| Ardmore | The World | 1907 | ? | Weekly | | Edited by B.C. Franklin. |
| Boley | The Beacon Boley Beacon | 1908 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn83025053 OCLC 9237325 | Edited by E.D. Lynwood. |
| Boley | The Boley Informer | 1909? | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn83025054 OCLC 9237376 | Published by A.L. Moore. Attested through at least 1911. |
| Boley | The Boley News | 1914? | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn83025100 OCLC 9241485 | 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 OCLC 9238133, 9239064 | Published by O.H. Bradley. |
| Boley | The Boley Trumpet | 1924? | ? | Weekly | | Edited by Elijah J. Burns. |
| Bookertee | The Bookertee Searchlight | 1919? | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn83025126 OCLC 9263135 | Published by I. L. Leathers. |
| Castle | Castle News / The Castle News | 1908 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn83025099 OCLC 9241424 | |
| Clarksville | The Clarksville Echo | 1900s | 1900s | Weekly | LCCN sn96087762 OCLC 34744591 | |
| Clear View | Clearview Tribune | 1904 | 1904 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025118 OCLC 9259034 | Published by B.K. Bruce. |
| Clearview | The Lincoln Tribune | 1904 | 1900s | Weekly | LCCN sn83025117 OCLC 9258639 | Published by E.D. Lynwood. |
| Clearview | The Patriarch / The Clearview Patriarch (1911–1913) | 1911 | 1917 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025116, sn83025115 OCLC 9258714, 9258582 | Numerous different editors and publishers. |
| Fallis | The Fallis Blade | 1904 | 1900s | Weekly | LCCN sn93050458 OCLC 26577557 | Published by G.W. Hutchins. |
| Garvin | The Garvin Pioneer | 1900s | 1910s | Weekly | LCCN sn94058805 OCLC 30330780 | Published by W.H. Carroll. |
| Guthrie | Labor Advocate | 1902 | 1900s | Weekly | LCCN sn83025114 OCLC 9248082 | Published by O.O. Blesh. |
| Guthrie | The Oklahoma Guide | 1892 | 1922 | Weekly | ISSN 2643-2137 LCCN sn83025066 OCLC 9235221 | Published by G.N. Perkins. |
| Guthrie | The Oklahoma Safeguard | 1894 or 1895 | 1915 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025056 OCLC 9237789 | Published by Published by Buchanan Publishing Co., edited by C.A. Buchanan. |
| Guthrie | The Peoples Elevator | 1922 | 1940s | Weekly | ISSN 2643-2129, 2643-2110 LCCN sn83025058, 2014254006 OCLC 9237938, 664611343 | 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 | LCCN sn83025045 OCLC 9226755 | Published by O.H. Bradley. |
| Guthrie | The Weekly Sun | 1913 | 1914 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025055, sn90050379 OCLC 9237755, 23011591 | Edited by J. H. Hubbard. |
| Langston | Church and State | 1911 | 1911 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025133 OCLC 9266557 | Edited by E. J. Vance. |
| Langston | The Langston City Herald | 1891 | 1902 | Weekly | ISSN 2158-8929 LCCN 2013254045, sn83025050 OCLC 732734625, 9227089 | |
| Langston | The Western Age | 1904 | 1909 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025002 OCLC 9213788 | 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 | LCCN sn96087690 OCLC 34573156 | Published by James O. Goodwin and Edward L. Goodwin. |
| Mulhall | The Mulhall Enterprise | 1894 | 1911 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025132 OCLC 9266447, 26568162 | Published by Willis B. Ehrman. |
| Muskogee | Muskogee Cimeter / The Muskogee Cimeter | 1899 or 1901 | 1930 | Weekly | ISSN 2158-8937 LCCN sn83025060 OCLC 9228536 | Free online archive Published from 1904 to 1921 by William Henry Twine. |
| Muskogee | The Muskogee Comet | 1904 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn83025061 OCLC 9228600 | Published by J.E. Toombs. |
| Muskogee | Creek Baptist Herald | 1911 | 1910s | Weekly | LCCN sn95076200 OCLC 33342854 | |
| Muskogee | The Daily Search-Light | 1905 | 1900s | Daily (except Sunday) | LCCN sn83025098 OCLC 9239162 | |
| Muskogee | The Dispensation | 1905 | 1900s | Monthly newspaper | LCCN sn83025059 OCLC 9228491 | Published by D.P. Pruett. |
| Muskogee | The Muskogee Lantern | 1926 or 1927 | 1940s | Weekly | LCCN sn83025097 OCLC 9239073 | |
| Muskogee | The Oklahoma Gazette | 1910? | ? | Weekly | | Edited by William Fields. |
| Muskogee | The Oklahoma Independent | 1936 | 1960s | Weekly | LCCN sn97064771 OCLC 36421194 | 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 | LCCN sn83025062 OCLC 9228966 | Edited from 1898 to 1904 by William Henry Twine. Edited subsequently by William A. Rentie. |
| Muskogee | Saturday Evening Tribune | 1912 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn83025067 OCLC 9230030 | Edited by S. Douglas Russell. Extant through at least 1913. |
| Muskogee | Southwesterner | 1905 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn83025072 OCLC 9230297 | Edited by J.T. Nicholson. |
| Muskogee | The Muskogee Star | 1912 | 1912 or 1913 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025068 OCLC 9230090 | Edited and Published by A. J. Smitherman. |
| Muskogee | The Tattler | 1915 | 1917 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025091 OCLC 9238744 | Published by Ernest D. Lynwood and Robert Jase. |
| Muskogee | The Weekly Progress | 1926 | 1926 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025096 OCLC 9239064 | Edited and published by O.H. Bradley. |
| Muskogee | The Western World | 1902 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn83025073 OCLC 9230324 | Edited by J. C. Leftwich. |
| Oklahoma City | The Black Advocate | 1992 | 1993 | Weekly | LCCN sn96087666 OCLC 34527902 | |
| Oklahoma City | The Black Chronicle | 1979 | current | Weekly | LCCN sn95076331 OCLC 19836563 | Official site |
| Oklahoma City | The Black Dispatch | 1915 | 1982 | Weekly | LCCN sn94084058, sn83025214 OCLC 32353111, 2258388, 18776696, 5149734 | Published by Richard Keaton Nash. |
| Oklahoma City | The Oklahoma City Guide / The Guide (1898–1903) | 1897 or 1898 | 1900s | Weekly | LCCN sn95076408 OCLC 34037722 The Guide: LCCN 2012254014 OCLC 770747612 | Attested through at least 1910. Published by Mattie M. Mallory. |
| Oklahoma City | The Oklahoma Dispatch | 1981 | 1980s | Weekly | LCCN sn95076087 OCLC 32900258 | 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 | LCCN sn95076328 OCLC 33822591 | |
| Oklahoma City | The Western World | 1900s | 1900s | Weekly | LCCN sn83025073 OCLC 9230324 | "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 OCLC 32651500, 27322198 Description based on: Vol. 6, no. 13 (Feb. 12, 1942). Microfilm. |
| Okmulgee | The Okmulgee Observer | 1937? | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn94091010, sn93062827 OCLC 32651500, 27322198 | Published and edited by B.J. Wilson. Attested through at least 1942. |
| Paden | The Paden Press | 1908 | 1909 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025004 OCLC 9214719 | Published and edited by John Young Bryce. |
| Paden | The Paden Times | 1907? | 1908 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025003 OCLC 9215123 | Published by E.E. Tabor and S.T. Peet. |
| Taft | Taft Enterprise | 1910 | 1914 | Weekly | LCCN sn83025011 OCLC 9216478 | |
| Tulsa | The Tulsa Guide | 1906 | 1900s | Weekly | LCCN sn93050465 OCLC 26577650 | Published by W.L. McKee. |
| Tulsa | The Oklahoma Eagle | 1922? | current | Weekly | ISSN 0745-385X LCCN sn94081660, sn83000748, sn96047413 OCLC 32229830, 9114180, 36130353, 5150225 | Official site |
| Tulsa | Oklahoma Sun | 1920 | 1920s | Weekly | LCCN sn93050593 OCLC 28824434 | |
| Tulsa | The Tulsa Star / Tulsa Daily Star | 1913 | 1921 | Weekly | ISSN 2163-4866 LCCN sn86064118 OCLC 28910549, 13621345 | Free online archive 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 | LCCN sn93050466 OCLC 26577643 | Attested from at least 1912. Published by Prof. J.H. Hill. |
| Wagoner | The Wagoner Echo | 1904 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn96087761 OCLC 34744482 | |
| Wewoka | The Wewoka and Lima Courier | 1913 | ? | Weekly | LCCN sn83025023 OCLC 9216861 | Edited by M.W. Williams. |