Red Bird, Oklahoma

“An Opportunity for the Colored Man.”

Before the 1920s, Red Bird had two cotton gins, a blacksmith shop, a casket shop, a lumber yard, a cement block factory, grocery stores, dry goods stores, a hotel, a delicatessen, a soda pop factory, a broom maker and two syrup mills.

http://www.redbirdok.org/Some-Hist.html

Red Bird was one of 50 all black towns in what is now Oklahoma. Wikipedia says Red Bird is now one of 13 surviving communities in Oklahoma.

In 2000, the town’s population was 153. By the 2010 count, 137 people lived in Red Bird. Demographic breakdown of the 2000 census showed 87.58% African American, 5.88% Native American, 4.58% White, 0.65% from other races, and 1.31% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.96% of the population.

“About 27.3% of families and 36.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 44.6% of those under the age of eighteen and 43.5% of those sixty five or over.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbird,_Oklahoma

Red Bird reached its largest population in 1950, with 411 residents.

Red Bird is in Wagoner County, in East Central Oklahoma. Here is a link to a satellite photograph:

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8857815,-95.5953198,2456m/data=!3m1!1e3