United States – Oklahoma
Jennie Eva Hughes Smith (1879-1939)
Jennie Hughes Smith was the first African American to graduate from the University of Idaho in 1899. Hughes was born...
Daisy Nelson Moore (1910-1985)
Daisy Nelson Moore was a teacher and civil rights activist in Arizona best known for her legal fight to teach...
Ruben Rivers (1921-1944)
Ruben Rivers was a United States Army staff sergeant who served as a tank company platoon leader during World War...
Benjamin Harrison Hill (1903-1971)
Benjamin Harrison Hill was a legislator, teacher, and African Methodist Episcopal (AME) minister born in Sidney, Nova Scotia, Canada on...
Bill Colbert (1835-1933)
Bill (or Billy) Colbert is best known for serving as an officer of color who upheld the law in the...
Jerome A. Holmes (1961- )
Jerome A. Holmes, is the first African American to serve as an United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the...
John “the Baptist” Stradford (1861-1935)
John B (for the Baptist) Stradford was born a free man in Versailles, Kentucky in 1861. His father, J.C. Stradford...
Russell Westbrook III (1988- )
Russell Westbrook III is American basketball player who played for the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston (Texas) Rockets in the...
O. W. Gurley (1868-1935)
Ottowa or O.W. Gurley is remembered was one of the wealthiest men in Tulsa, Oklahoma before the 1921 Tulsa Massacre...
