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Aug 23, 2023 · In the early 1960s, it was one of the leading organizations challenging public segregation in the South. In the summer of 1964, the Tulsa chapter of CORE turned their attention to the Sand Springs schools led by James W. Russell, a nineteen-year-old resident of Sand Springs and a CORE member.
- Charles Page, Town Founder
- Indian Land and A Segregated Community
- Other Civil Rights Protests
The high school is named after Sand Springs founder Charles Page, still revered in that small city located just west of Tulsa. He is foremost recognized for his philanthropy. He established Sand Springs Home, a large orphanage, and Widow’s Colony, a residential housing complex for widows and children. Already wealthy when he was lured to the area b...
Before the Dawes Act of 1887, Native American lands were held by tribes as communal property. This Act coerced tribes into severing the land into allotments to individual tribal members as private property. In a short period of time after that, they could sell the land to whites. Historian D.S. Otis wrote this Allotment Act (as it was also named) “...
Oklahoma has a long history of Black civil rights struggles. The Oklahoma Constitution of 1907 did not mandate complete segregation because of fear President Theodore Roosevelt would disapprove of it with his signature. But Article XIII Section 3 stipulated the segregation of schools. The clause was finally removed by a statewide referendum in 1965...
Education (1880-1941) Religion (1884-1945) Transportation (1850-1945) The first schools in Tulsa were tribal schools for children of the Creek Indians, the original settlers of Tulsa. Later, mission day schools were established to teach children of the Creek Indians and non-Indian settlers. In 1884, the Presbyterian Board of New York, under the ...
Feb 1, 2021 · John Hope Franklin: Segregation is not really the proper term to use to describe race relations in Tulsa in this period. The schools were called the Tulsa separate schools and I think that catches ...
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Ten years later, in 1928 there were 5,095 districts; of these, 4,350 were rural one-school districts, 394 were rural consolidated or union, and 351 were urban independent. Change was gradual, but persistent. Population movement began to increase in Oklahoma during the years of the Great Depression.
Oklahoma's second-largest city, Tulsa is located in the state's northeastern quadrant, adjacent to the Arkansas River. Tulsa serves as the Tulsa County seat. The city's development since the 1950s has been related to its location to Interstates 44 and 244 as well as to State Highways 11, 51, 64, 75, 169, and 412.
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Oct 29, 2017 · A generation of school desegregation. Ben Felder. 0:04. 1:25. LITTLE ROCK — “Two, four, six, eight, we ain't gonna integrate,” shouted Randy Dotson, a ranger with the National Park Service who mimicked the chants of thousands of angry white men and women who had gathered at Little Rock's Central High School on Sept. 4, 1957, as nine black ...
