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Poteau, April 6 - All 25 Negro students at Poteau's Dunbar elementary school will be integrated with three white grade schools next autumn. Superintendant G. E. Evans said the Board of Education voted unanimously to close the Negro school. Poteau was the first town in Oklahoma to desegregate its high school students.
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.
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.
Oct 29, 2017 · Within 10 years of forced busing, over 30,000 white students left the Oklahoma City district, according to historic enrollment data. But segregation appears to continue in some forms. In Oklahoma City schools, nearly 71 percent of black students in 1970 attended school with black enrollment of 70 percent or higher.
11. Elementary enrollment in public schools, by state: Fall 1970 to fall 1995 ..... 38 12. Secondary enrollment in public schools, by state: Fall 1970 to fall 1995 ..... 41 13. Average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary schools,
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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 ...
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local money would be needed.1 The state legislature attempted to reduce the hardship of abrupt dismis-sals by providing that teachers must be notified by 10 April each year if their contracts were not to be renewed; 1 Fully discussed in "Oklahoma," Southern School News, II, 4, February 1956. otherwise they would be automatically retained.
