After the heaviness of the last two weeks, your favorite cousins decided to explore some brighter history of our home state. Pioneers in two different areas of Oklahoma history, lawman Bass Reeves and Civil Rights Activist Roscoe Dunjee paved the way for many Oklahomans. Bass Reeves helped bring down the lawless as the first African American Marshall in Oklahoma, and maybe the entire US. Roscoe Dunjee was a self-taught newspaper man, whose life goal was to improve the advancement of other African Americans in his home state of Oklahoma. As editor and chief of the first African American newspaper in OKC, "Black Dispatch". Dunjee used his platform to bring awareness to the different plights people of color were (and many still are today) up against. We hope you enjoy this fascinating dive into early Oklahoma history!
