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    Success by trial
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • May 15

    Success by trial

    The Coincoin-Prudhomme house along the Cane River in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana was documented by the Historic Buildings Survey in...
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    George Conrad, Buffalo Soldier
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jul 6, 2021

    George Conrad, Buffalo Soldier

    In 1937, George Conrad, Jr. was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project. Born in slavery on February 23, 1860 at Connversville,...
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    Humble historic home
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 30, 2021

    Humble historic home

    Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...
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    Training School
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 30, 2021

    Training School

    Two miles south of Blevins (Hempstead County, Arkansas) along the old Blevins to Washington Road, once sat the Blevins Training School, a...
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    Tatums Oil
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 30, 2021

    Tatums Oil

    Tatums (Carter County, Oklahoma) is one of the few 'all black towns' still extant in Oklahoma. It shared its location at Wildhorse Creek...
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    Great War Soldier
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 28, 2021

    Great War Soldier

    Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace history. And the history gathered from a tombstone needn't be from your...
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    Dr. King's Visit to Shreveport
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 28, 2021

    Dr. King's Visit to Shreveport

    In January of 2002, Shreveport resident William Hines, who was one of the city's first African American police officers, gave an oral...
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    An academy for Freedmen
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 9, 2020

    An academy for Freedmen

    Oak Hill Industrial School in 1905 was established for freed people, formerly enslaved by the Choctaws, near today’s Valliant in Indian...
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    Rural education
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Mar 10, 2020

    Rural education

    Farmers Improvement College near Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas. (Baylor University) In 1906, a group of civic leaders put their...
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    Recipes and Memories
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Oct 16, 2019

    Recipes and Memories

    Lucinda Davis, a person enslaved by the Creeks and a resident of former Indian Territory, was interviewed and photographed by the Federal...
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    Roosevelt schoolin’
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jun 17, 2019

    Roosevelt schoolin’

    The well-built little school in Roosevelt, built by the Works Progress Administration, had two entrances – one for girls, and one for...
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    Coal Country
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • May 15, 2018

    Coal Country

    (Library of Congress) A geological map of coal claims around Coalgate, Coal County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from ca. 1900 shows that...
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    Tombstone History
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Feb 14, 2018

    Tombstone History

    Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace histrory. And the history from the tombstone needn’t be a family member,...
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    A trip to historic Shreveport
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Feb 10, 2018

    A trip to historic Shreveport

    In 1958, Martin Luther King, Jr.  met with community and NAACP leaders to formulate a school integration plan at the (old) Galilee...
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    Death Divided
    Robin Cole-Jett
    • Jan 3, 2016

    Death Divided

    I love strolling through cemeteries – the older and more overgrown, the better, of course. I’m not particularly ghoulish, though. I just...
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