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Writ Large and Small: State and Local Race Relations and the Meridian "Race Riot" of 1926
Article describes the history of racial violence and segregation among the white and black communities of Oklahoma, highlighting two investigations in Meridian, Oklahoma as a demonstration of what local authorities were willing to label a "race riot."
Date:
Summer 2009
Creator:
Klein, James E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Willard Johnston: Homesteader and Frontier Banker, 1881-1904
Article studies the development of frontier banking as exemplified in Willard Johnston's interests, which began in Shawnee and expanded to include numerous financial institutions and communities around the state.
Date:
Winter 2009
Creator:
Hightower, Michael J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"A Model Fruit Ranch": The Housholder Fruit Farm of Guthrie, Oklahoma
Article written by Joe Bax, Glen Housholder's grandson, provides a portrait of the Householder Fruit Farm and the family's tremendous successes amid struggles against railroads, commission merchants, and Oklahoma's sometimes fickle weather.
Date:
Autumn 2004
Creator:
Bax, Joe G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Gleanings from the Coulter School Memoirs: Recollections of Pioneering in Logan County
Article explores the pioneering experience through the recollections of those who contributed to the Coulter School Memoirs, which explore life in a small rural community in Logan County, Oklahoma Territory.
Date:
Summer 1999
Creator:
Hewes, Leslie
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"No Wild Venture": The State Capital Publishing Building
Article delineates the construction of the Oklahoma State Capital Building, led by the Oklahoma State Capital newspaper editor Frank Hilton Greer, and the history behind it. Lloyd C. Lentz, II, also explores the legacy Greer left through the conversion of the building to the State Capital Publishing Museum.
Date:
Autumn 1983
Creator:
Lentz, Lloyd C., III
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma's First Comprehensive University: Langston University, The Early Years
Article discusses the history of Oklahoma's first comprehensive university, Langston University. Originally known as the Colored Agricultural and Normal University at Langston, the university flourished and provided an education to black citizens of Oklahoma amidst early obstacles of segregation and poor funding.
Date:
Spring 1996
Creator:
Brown, Willis L. & McNeal-Brown, Janie M.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
An Exercise in Pride: Celebrating the Oklahoma Semi-centennial
This article takes a look back at the semi-centennial celebration of 1957 as Oklahoma prepares to celebrate the centennial of 1907 statehood in 2007.
Date:
Summer 2007
Creator:
Mullins, Bill
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History