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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.
- 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...
1954-1963. Monroe Billington *. Ten years Court 1954, have declaring unconstitutional the of announced passed its historic since decision May 17, state-supported United States Supreme. segregated schools.1 During the decade a few Deep South. states have successfully resisted the Court's implementing.
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 ...
This is a list of the 509 public school districts in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. [1] Of those, 415 are independent school districts that offer first grade through 12th grade classes. There are 94 dependent school districts which serve students at lower grade levels; most offer first grade through eighth grade classes, while a few only offer classes through the sixth grade.
At least eighty-eight districts of the state had ordered desegregation, although the degree of integration. varied in districts and school systems. In the meantime, in January 1956, the State Board of Education adopted. a new finance policy directly promot-ing, in some instances forcing, integra-tion.
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Percentage of 4-year-olds enrolled in public Pre-K programs Percentage of Oklahoma districts with a public Pre-K program Number of quality standards benchmarks met by Oklahoma’s public Pre-K program 99% 9 of 10 Nation 34% Oklahoma 70% White 46.26% Hispanic 19.27% American Indian 11.58% Two or More Races 12.40% Black 7.92% Asian/Pacific ...
