Tullahassee residents come together for reopening of community center | News [Video]

TULLAHASSEE, Okla. — On Friday, the Tullahassee community came together to witness a reveal that they called historic for the town.

The town of Tullahassee was one of the first Black towns in the state of Oklahoma.

It has abandoned buildings and even a torn-down school due to the lack of resources like jobs and grocery stores.

On Friday, the mayor of Tullahassee, Keisha Currin, unveiled the first finished project to restore the town.

“My family derives from here is more than a legacy. My parents and my great-grandparents fought for this town. They fought for their rights, they fought for us to survive here. So it’s important to me that we save our heritage, that we save our culture because we have a lot of that here in our community,” Currin said.

They opened the John Ford Community Center, which closed 34 years ago.

Ford is an alumnus from …