African American Migration North to Canada
Angela Walton-Raji
Content
Welcome
1:25
Speaker's Introduction
2:20
Introduction
6:44
Destination Western Plains
6:31
In Search of Bessie
7:35
Oklahoma to Alberta
7:33
Methods & Research
10:03
Announcements / prizes
2:11
Questions / answers
6:38
About this webinar
In 1911 about 1000 families--black families from Oklahoma migrated to Canada. Oklahoma had just become a state and has passed Jim Crow laws immediately. Many who had lived there for decades found these new restrictions too harsh to bear and they moved to Alberta! Their descendants still live in Western Canada today.
About the speaker
Angela Walton-Raji is known nationally for her genealogical and historical research and work with Oklahoma Native-American records. Her book, “Black Indian Genealogy Research” was the first book of it...
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