United States – Oklahoma
(1866) U.S. Treaty with the Cherokee Nation
(Sections Related to the Freedmen) July 19, 1866. Ratified July 27, 1866. Proclaimed August 11, 1866 ARTICLE 4. All the...
(1863) Cherokee Emancipation Proclamation
An Act Providing for the Abolition of Slavery in the Cherokee Nation, Be it enacted by the Natl Council, That...
Sugar T. George (1827-1900)
Sugar T. George a.k.a. George Sugar was born in approximately 1827, as a slave in the Muskogee Nation. This former...
Sarann Knight-Preddy (1920-2014)
Sarann Knight was born in Eufaula, Oklahoma on July 22, 1920, to parents of mixed African American and Native American...
Meredith Mathews (1919-1992)
Prominent social and civic leader in African American Seattle, Washington, Meredith Mathews was born in Thomaston, Georgia on September 14,...
Marquette Frye (1944-1986)
Marquette Frye, whose arrest sparked the Watts Riots in 1965, was born in Oklahoma but grew up in rural Hanna,...
(1950) McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
Appellant, a Negro citizen of Oklahoma possessing a master’s degree, was admitted to the Graduate School of the state-supported University...
(1948) Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma Et. Al.
January 7-8, 1948, Argued January 12, 1948, Decided JUDGES: Vinson, Black, Reed, Frankfurter, Douglas, Murphy, Jackson, Rutledge, Burton OPINION BY:...
James Andrew “Jimmy”Rushing (1902-1972)
James Andrew “Jimmy” Rushing—affectionately known as “Mister Five-By-Five” for being “five feet tall and five feet wide”—was a blues shouter...
