Mitchelville Was The First US Town Led By Formerly Enslaved People

This month in 1863, the founding of a town that made history: Mitchelville was the first town in the United States to be governed by formerly enslaved people. Plus: it’s National Girl Scout Day, and a scout troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma gets the credit for the first ever sale of Girl Scout cookies in 1917. This Island in South Carolina Has the First Self-governed Town of Formerly Enslaved People in the U.S. (Travel and Leisure)Statue commemorates first cookie sale (Muskogee Phoenix)You can help build our show as a backer on Patreon