Black History Month: The Story of the Threatt Filling Station
Metropolitan Library System Podcast
English - February 15, 2021 12:00 - 22 minutes - 17.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHistory Education oklahoma influentialoklahomans metro metrolibrary metropolitanlibrarysystem oklahomaarts oklahomaauthors oklahomacity oklahomacounty oklahomaculture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Sitting between two sundown towns in Oklahoma, the Threatt Filling Station was a safe haven for African American travelers on Route 66 during the time of Jim Crow. Cousins Charles and Ed Threatt talk about the filling station and its importance to our state's history.