Edward P. McCabe

As a child, he moved from Troy to Fall River, Massachusetts, Newport, Rhode Island, and Bangor, Maine.

[2] In that year, U.S. Rep. William Lawrence, an Ohio Republican, introduced a bill creating the Territory of Lincoln from that land.

At age 32, McCabe was elected Kansas State Auditor, and became the highest-ranking African-American officeholder outside of the Reconstruction South (AAME).

He then moved to Washington, D.C., where he fruitlessly lobbied for an appointment for governor in the new Oklahoma Territory, from President Benjamin Harrison (Taylor).

He planned to organize Negro settlers so that he could muster a majority of black voters in each representative and senatorial district of the proposed state".

[6] "The opportunity for progress through prosperity and the chance to escape racial discrimination were the two drawing attractions promoted by Oklahoma black newspapers.

[8] "Black Oklahomans owned fairly large farms and even controlled whole towns",[9] and were "behaving in a manner directly contrary to the hopes and expectations of the whites.

Past 1900 large numbers of Negroes began moving from the South and East sections to the interior part of the state.

Even though this never happened, McCabe played a big role in taking a stand for African-American rights in a time where there was a great deal of racial persecution.