The Langston City Herald debuted on May 2, 1891, as the first weekly African-American newspaper in Oklahoma Territory. A paramount promoter of Black homesteading in the territory, it circulated throughout the South and Southeast. Its widespread readership was vital to the settlement of African- Americans in Oklahoma.
Edward McCabe established the Langston City Herald in Logan County. McCabe was born in Troy, New York, on October 10, 1850. By his late twenties, he had joined the “Exoduster” movement to the West, landing in Topeka, Kansas. As a trained lawyer, he broke racial barriers and was elected twice to the position of state auditor. However, McCabe had higher ambitions. In 1890, he left Kansas to organize an All-Black town in Oklahoma Territory.
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