Jones was a fierce defender of black institutions, one of many African American leaders in Oklahoma who supported what came to be called “All-Black towns,” municipalities occupied and governed by black settlers. One of these towns was targeted in 1921 by white mobs for one of the worst racist attacks in American history, referred to as the Tulsa race massacre. More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals and as many as 6,000 black residents were interned in large facilities, many of them for several days. The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead. A 2001 state commission examination of events was able to confirm that of the 36 dead, 26 were black and 10 white, based on contemporary autopsy reports, death certificates and other records. Jones was well traveled, traveling across not only the United States, but also overseas to France, England, Palestine, Switzerland, Italy, North Africa, and Germany, filming his travels along the way. These films were only slightly less significant than Jones’s films of Oklahoma, which still serve as a visual commemoration of the thirty-five years he spent advocating for African American people and institutions in Oklahoma.