William Henry Twine letters, 1905-1906.

3 items

English

In English.

Purchased from Michael D. Heaston on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1986.

Arranged chronologically.

This material is open for research.

William Henry Twine (1862-1933) was an African-American civil rights attorney in Oklahoma who owned tthe Muskogee Cimeter, a newspaper published in Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1904-1921.

3 autograph letters, signed, from William Henry Twine. 2 letters addressed to Red Bird Investment Company, which encouraged settlement of African Americans in Red Bird, Oklahoma, discuss the circulation of 500 copies of the Muskogee Cimeter. 1 letter addressed to M. E. Johnson in Pittsburg, Kansas discusses the possibility of opening an unidentified college for African Americans.

November 02, 2018

William Henry Twine Letters. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

William Henry Twine Letters. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Lawyers Oklahoma 20th century.