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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.
- Better Schools Amendment
In 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Oklahoma City must...
- Better Schools Amendment
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 ...
In 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Oklahoma City must institute a policy of busing students around the district in order to comply with federal law. The Better Schools Amendment did, however, set the state on the road to providing equal educational opportunity for all of its citizens, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender.
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
- Separate But Equal in Oklahoma
- The First Desegregated School in 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...
Pat Burroughson June 03, 2020: Doctor Montgomery was our vet from the start, before I ever married. My husband and I always took our pets to him after we married. He was one of the finest people I have ever known and I considered him a friend till the day he died. Poteau was so blest to have him and his family living there. Marlea Evanson May 15, 2...
There were 41,349 teachers in the public schools, or roughly one teacher for every 16 students, compared to the national average of 1:16. There was roughly one administrator for every 304 students, compared to the national average of one administrator for every 295 students. On average Oklahoma spent $7,587 per pupil in 2011, which ranked it ...
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Oct 29, 2017 · Montgomery later served for 25 years on the board of regents for Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma A&M Colleges. While schools in Oklahoma were desegregating in the mid 1950s, racial hostilities remained high in many parts of the state, including Oklahoma City, where 13 children and schoolteacher Clara Luper held a sit-in at the downtown ...
