[4] One of more than fifty All-Black towns of Oklahoma, Brooksville is one of only thirteen still existing at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Located in Pottawatomie County 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Tecumseh, Brooksville was established in 1903.

Originally the town was named Sewell, after a white doctor who owned much of the surrounding land and attended the residents.

In 1909 the name changed to Brooksville in honor of the first African American in the area, A. R. Brooks, a cotton buyer and farmer.

White also promoted the town throughout the South, urging African Americans to settle in Brooksville.

George W. McLaurin, the first African American graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, taught at the school.

A declining cotton market and the Great Depression made life difficult in Brooksville, as in many Oklahoma communities.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2), all land.