TAILIEUCHUNG - The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy

"The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, Are to us, as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves, or pictured faces!" The aim of the Author in preparing this volume has been to put in a form, convenient for preservation and future reference, a brief historical sketch of the work and workers connected with the founding and development of Oak Hill Industrial Academy, established for the benefit of the Freedmen of the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, by the Presbyterian church, U. S. A., in 1886, when Miss Eliza Hartford became the first white teacher, to the erection of Elliott. | Choctaw Freedmen by Robert Elliott Flickinger 1 THE CHOCTAW FREEDMEN ROBERT ELLIOTT FLICKINGER Choctaw Freedmen by Robert Elliott Flickinger Project Gutenberg s The Choctaw Freedmen by Robert Elliott Flickinger This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Author Robert Elliott Flickinger Release Date November 4 2007 EBook 23321 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHOCTAW FREEDMEN Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe Marcia Brooks Don Tvenge African American Biographical Database and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http The Choctaw Freedmen Illustration OAK HILL AN OAK TREE Choctaw Freedmen by Robert Elliott Flickinger 2 On the southeastern slope near the Academy A pretty Oak That strong and stalwart grows. With every changing wind that blows is a beautiful emblem of the strength beauty and eminent usefulness of an intelligent and noble man. He shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. Illustration ALICE LEE ELLIOTT 1846-1906 THE Choctaw Freedmen AND The Story of OAK HILL INDUSTRIAL ACADEMY Valliant McCurtain County OKLAHOMA Now Called the ALICE LEE ELLIOTT MEMORIAL Including the early History of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory the Presbytery of Kiamichi Synod of Canadian and the Bible in the Free Schools of the American Colonies but suppressed in France previous to the American and French Revolutions BY ROBERT ELLIOTT FLICKINGER A Recent Superintendent of the Academy and Pastor of the Oak Hill Church ILLUSTRATED BY 100 ENGRAVINGS Under the Auspices of the PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS FOR FREEDMEN Pittsburgh Pa. ENTERED

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• Choctaw Freedmen
• The American Negro
• Indian Territory
• Industrial Academy
• Oak Hill
• Robert Elliott Flickinger