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Caleb Gayle

Caleb Gayle

Caleb Gayle is an award-winning journalist and the author of We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity and Power. A professor at Northeastern University, he is a contributing writer at the New York Times magazine, and his work also has appeared in the Atlantic, Time and the Guardian.

Edward P. McCabe argued that Black people could not only belong in the new American territorities, but actually be in charge.

This Visionary African American Politician Dreamed of Creating an All-Black State in Oklahoma Territory

Edward P. McCabe petitioned Benjamin Harrison for an opportunity to show him that Black people “are men and women capable of self‑government.” When the president was unmoved, McCabe and his followers went west anyway