HISTORY

THE DREAM OF BLACK OKLAHOMA
With Reconstruction failing after the Civil War, despair engulfed Blacks throughout the South. Their dreams were dashed, replaced by fear, threats and violence. One man, Edward P. McCabe became an inspiration to them by establishing a self-governance movement. He sought a way for Blacks to break free from the oppression of Reconstruction in the South. Invigorating their hope for the future, tens of thousands of Black settlers migrated to the Oklahoma Territory.

WAS MERRIWEATHER CLARK MURDERED?
In 1803, the United States acquired an 828,000 square mile parcel of land from France known as the Louisiana Purchase. At a cost of $15 million dollars, it now makes up the western part of the United States. It extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, almost doubling the land mass of the United States. Once secured, the President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson sent Merriweather Lewis and William Clark out into the unknown to explore this new territory. Did this set off a chain of events that caused the murder of Merriweather Lewis?

THE MITCHELL-TRUITT FEUD
The Truitts, an immigrant family traveling across America in the late 1860s to start a new life, found themselves in big trouble in Texas. Their horse had died and they became stranded, starving with nowhere to turn. A kindly family found them and helped them create a new life for themselves only to see the Truitts destroy them.