When the US government forced more than 60,000 native Americans to relocate to Oklahoma to make way for white settlers in the 1830s, their slaves came with them.
19世纪30年代，美国政府迫使6万多名美洲原住民迁往俄克拉荷马州 ，为白人定居者腾出土地 ，他们的奴隶也一同前往 。
After emancipation, the freed slaves, known as freedmen, settled and built their own towns.
解放后，获得自由的奴隶，即所谓的自由民，定居下来并建造了自己的城镇。
Where they would have the opportunity to live amongst people that looked like them, amongst people who understood the plights that they had escaped from, but ready to embark upon a new opportunity, form their own government in terms of their mayors and their elected officials, all of whom were like them, and it was an amazing opportunity.
在那里，他们将有机会与和自己长相相似的人生活在一起，与那些理解他们所逃离的困境的人生活在一起，同时准备好迎接新的机遇，按照自己的意愿选举市长和官员来组建自己的政府，而所有这些官员都和他们一样，这真是一个绝佳的机会。
The fully self-sufficient communities thrived in the 1910s. The town of Boley was flourishing, with hotels, doctors, lawyers, schools, colleges, and restaurants.
完全自给自足的社区在20世纪10年代蓬勃发展。博利镇一派繁荣景象，有酒店、医生、律师、学校、学院和餐馆。
They had their own newspaper in Boley. They had their own phone company.
他们在博利有自己的报纸。他们有自己的电话公司。
So it was a bevy of commercial and residential life, not to mention the thousands of farms around most of these towns.
这里有大量的商业和住宅生活设施，更不用说这些城镇周边还有成千上万个农场了。
But the Great Depression of the 1930s took a toll on the all-black towns.
但20世纪30年代的大萧条对全黑人城镇造成了沉重打击。
Many residents left to find work elsewhere. Town populations dwindled.
许多居民离开这里到别处找工作。城镇人口减少。
Today, just 13 all-black towns remain in Oklahoma, including Grayson, population 140.
今天，俄克拉荷马州只剩下13个全黑人城镇，其中包括格雷森镇，人口140人。
90 percent of the individuals or retirees, you know, or individuals or some type of disability, who move back to their home site you know in Grayson, and so that makes up really the population in our community.
90%的居民是退休人员或者残疾人，他们搬回格雷森的老家，所以这构成了我们社区的主要人口。
Today, an annual rodeo draws visitors to Grayson, where Anderson remembers flexing his cowboy skills as a teenager.
如今，一年一度的牛仔竞技表演吸引着游客来到格雷森，安德森记得自己十几岁时曾在这里展示过牛仔技能。
We didn't have a movie theater. We didn't have a drive-in theater to go to you know like on weekends for entertainment.
我们没有电影院。我们也没有可以在周末去消遣娱乐的汽车影院。
But we could all saddle up a horse and go down to the corral. So we'd go down and challenge one another.
但我们都可以跨上马鞍，骑马到畜栏去。这样我们就可以下去互相挑战了。
You know, we might ride the same horse, you know, trying to figure out if we can rope a calf faster than the next person.
我们可能骑同一匹马，想弄清楚我们能不能比下一个人更快地拴住小牛。
Shirley Ballard Nero grew up nearby in the all-black town of Clearview.
雪莉·巴拉德·内罗在附近全是黑人居住的克利尔维尤镇长大。
There were Indians that lived around us, because this is the Creek Nation.
我们周围住着印第安人，因为这里是克里克部落的领地。
So it's not just totally an all-black town. We all played at the same spot.
这并非完全是个全是黑人的小镇。我们都在同一个地方玩耍。
We all had our mailboxes in the same spot. But when it was time for the school buses to arrive, we got on separate school buses.
我们所有人的邮箱都在同一个地方。但到了校车到达的时间，我们却各自上了不同的校车。
Nero, a retired history teacher, returned home to Clearview with her husband, a retired college president after spending their work lives elsewhere.
妮罗是一位退休的历史教师，她和退休的大学校长丈夫在其他地方工作了一辈子后，回到了克利尔维尤的家中。
I wanted to come back here. I knew this town needed us. And we had the ability and the know-how to probably be an asset to Clearview.
我想回到这里，我知道这个小镇需要我们，我们拥有能力和技术，或许能成为克利尔维尤的一笔财富。
Many of the buildings in the old all-black towns are crumbling, abandoned, or neglected by absentee owners.
许多旧时全黑人城镇中的建筑正在破败、被遗弃，或者被那些不住在当地的业主们忽视。
Clearview managed to preserve the old school gym built in 1939, now a community center that hosts funerals, family reunions and other events.
克利尔维尤设法保存了建于1939年的旧学校体育馆，如今这里成了一个社区中心，用于举办葬礼、家庭团聚等活动。
Revitalizing Oklahoma's all-black towns is the goal of a group of volunteers called The Coltrane Group.
振兴俄克拉荷马州的全黑人城镇是一个名为“The Coltrane Group”的志愿者团体的目标。
If all of these buildings are gone, there's really no story because now you're looking at an empty land and people can visualize just an empty space.
如果所有这些建筑都没了，那就真的没什么故事可言了，因为现在你看到的只是一片空地，人们也只能想象出一片空地。
But if these buildings were developed, which I think would help the economy for these historical black towns to move forward.
但如果这些建筑得到开发，我认为这将有助于这些历史悠久的黑人城镇的经济向前发展。
The Coltrane Group leads tours of the all black towns, in hopes of raising interest and funds to keep this vital part of Oklahoma history from being lost forever.
The Coltrane Group带领游客参观这些全黑人城镇，希望能引起人们的兴趣并筹集资金，以防止俄克拉荷马州历史上这一重要部分永远消失。
