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The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Lincoln County Union School District 61, near Chandler, circa 1899. (15373, Joseph Thoburn Collection, OHS). Arapaho District 35 Common School, Custer County, 1910. (11254.2, Lucille Snider Parks Collection, OHS). Boone Township Consolidated School in 1920.
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The Cherokee government established a public school system...
- The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
The teachers created an organization that would last for more than a century. The eleven teachers (known as the Oklahoma Teachers Association) paired with the Indian Territory Teachers Association and became known as the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) in 1918. The OEA worked to improve teacher pay and school funding, to provide a ...
Jan 15, 2010 · The Cherokee government established a public school system in 1841 and operated eighteen public schools by 1843. In 1844 the Chickasaw tribal government appropriated funds for a tribal academy, which was opened seven years later as the Chickasaw Manual Labor School for Boys. Between 1852 and 1859 the Chickasaw opened four more boarding schools.
desegregate its schools following the 1954 decision. Proceeding smoothly at first, integration in Oklahoma was praised by both whites and Negroes during its early years. of operation. The process began to slow down in 1958, however, and little integration occurred in the state after that time.
- Slavery, Freedmen, and Southeast Oklahoma
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The first black slaves began to arrive in what would become Oklahoma long before the American Civil War. They arrived during the push for westward migration. As the wild frontier began to dwindle, many white cotton farmers began to seek land in the American Southeast, primarily within the Mississippi River Valley. This was already the home of many ...
Following the Civil War, things settled down somewhat. However, the practice of indentured servitude continued. The U.S. federal government forced the Native Americans to abolish slavery. They were then required to grant the former black slaves citizenship. While this helped, most of the “freedmen” were still poor and highly untrained. Because of t...
In Poteau, the white settlement was centered on Broadway, between College and Flener streets. The largest black population worked for a Native American by the name of Benjamin H. Harper. At the time, the area where the current downtown district is was a large cotton plantation. After the railroads moved in, Mr. Harper sold his land for a small fort...
Although the information contained here came from a variety of sources, most comes from The Birth of Poteau, Poteau Public School Archives, Interviews with residents, Dr. Montgomery, and early written interviews and accounts. This content is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and indivi...
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When the school year 1955-1956 be-gan, twenty-one of the ninety-six sepa-rate (Negro) high schools had been dis-continued, including an estimated hun-dred and sixty-five Negro teachers dis-charged. At least eighty-eight districts of the state had ordered desegregation, although the degree of integration varied in districts and school systems.
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Jan 11, 2017 · State appropriations was 51 percent of all Oklahoma school funding in FY 2014, and other state revenues made up 11 percent of school funding. The rest came from property taxes and other local funding (28 percent) and federal funds (10 percent). Since 2001 the state share of all education costs has fallen from 59 to 51 percent, and the local ...
