[Photograph 2012.201.B0101.0369]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All-Americans on the roster of the Dallas Texans include Max Boydston, left, former Oklahoma University star; Marvin Terrell, center, Mississippi guard, and Sid Fournet, guard at LSU."
Date: July 23, 1960
Creator: Longhead Photos
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0103.0260]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Putnam West tight end Rickey Brady (left) receives a plaque honoring him as a Parade High School All-American .."
Date: January 10, 1990
Creator: Klock, Roger
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

"All American Indian Days"

Photograph of Native Americans in traditional clothing titled, "All American Indian Days."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Historic Resources of Oklahoma's All-Black Towns: A Preservation Profile (open access)

Historic Resources of Oklahoma's All-Black Towns: A Preservation Profile

Article explores the history of all-black towns in Oklahoma and provides recommendations for their preservation. George O. Carney discusses the reasons for the migration of freedmen to the area and the impact of the growth of generations of black citizens working towards a better future.
Date: Summer 1991
Creator: Carney, George O.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The First Americans' Tribute to the First President (open access)

The First Americans' Tribute to the First President

Article discusses the creation of the Washington National Monument and the tribute stone placed by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Stockbridge, Creek, and Choctaw delegates at the completion of the memorial.
Date: Summer 1979
Creator: Campbell, Janet
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
West Edwards Days: African Americans in Territorial Edmond (open access)

West Edwards Days: African Americans in Territorial Edmond

Article describes the nearly forgotten African American community centered around West Edwards Street in territorial Edmond.
Date: Summer 2019
Creator: Lehman, Christopher P.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Did Oklahoma African Americans Vote Between 1910 and 1943? (open access)

Did Oklahoma African Americans Vote Between 1910 and 1943?

Article analyzes election results during the years of 1910 and 1943 to determine if African Americans were voting in Oklahoma despite attempts to disenfranchise them by the Oklahoma Legislature. Although the US Supreme Court had rendered the "Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional, more obstacles were being created.
Date: Spring 2015
Creator: Darcy, R.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Newspaper Articles on cattle trails and Native Americans (open access)

Newspaper Articles on cattle trails and Native Americans

Newspaper articles on page 1: "Chisholm Trail, Old Cattle Route of Early Days, Becomes Highway" and "Indian Massacres; or Thrilling Tales of the Red Skine." Article on page 2: " Time Locates the Chisholm Trail." The third article contains the contents of a letter written by C. F. Colcord.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907-1946 (open access)

A Reading Room of Their Own: Library Services for African Americans in Oklahoma, 1907-1946

Article discussing the struggles African American Oklahomans faced for access to public library services. The first forty years of statehood brought a few successes, and by mid-century only eleven communities provided a public library facility for the state's black citizens.
Date: Autumn 2006
Creator: Cassity, R. O. Joe, Jr.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The "Oklahoma Vorwärts": The Voice of German-Americans in Oklahoma During World War I (open access)

The "Oklahoma Vorwärts": The Voice of German-Americans in Oklahoma During World War I

Article describes the history of settlement in Oklahoma by German-Americans, one of the most successful German-language newspapers in Oklahoma, and the hostility they faced in the 1910s as a result of wartime hysteria.
Date: Summer 1976
Creator: Bilger, Edda
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Colorblind Proletarian Brotherhood: African Americans, American Indians, and Racial Inclusivity in the Oklahoma Socialist Party (open access)

Colorblind Proletarian Brotherhood: African Americans, American Indians, and Racial Inclusivity in the Oklahoma Socialist Party

Article explores the ways the Oklahoma Socialist Party promoted racial inclusion as well as missed opportunities in the early twentieth century. Matthew F. Simmons provides historical background for marginalized groups in Oklahoma, specifically African Americans and American Indians.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: Simmons, Matthew F.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"All In": The Rise of Tribal Gaming (open access)

"All In": The Rise of Tribal Gaming

Article describes the struggle over jurisdiction that resulted in compacts to govern tribal gaming.
Date: Winter 2015
Creator: Dickson, Kathy
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sundown on the Prairie: The Extralegal Campaigns and Efforts from 1889 to 1967 to Exclude African Americans from Norman, Oklahoma (open access)

Sundown on the Prairie: The Extralegal Campaigns and Efforts from 1889 to 1967 to Exclude African Americans from Norman, Oklahoma

Article depicts how Norman used extralegal means to maintain its status as a "sundown town," a place where African Americans were not welcome after dark, well into the mid-twentieth century.
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: Givel, Michael S.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Letter regarding the first meeting of 2000 (open access)

Letter regarding the first meeting of 2000

Letter regarding the first meeting of 2000 required by all branch presidents and members.
Date: January 12, 2000
Creator: Allen, Richard
Object Type: Letter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Boley, Oklahoma (open access)

Boley, Oklahoma

Article describes the founding of Boley, Oklahoma, one of the largest all-black towns in Oklahoma, and the townsite speculation process that occurred beforehand.
Date: Summer 1977
Creator: Hamilton, Kenneth Marvin
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1068.0037]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's all over for the old politicians," a national lecturer and youth foundation chairman predicted Sunday. John Punam, chosen in 1966 as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of America, has been blind since he was 19."
Date: November 24, 1968
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Printed database of cases filed (open access)

Printed database of cases filed

Database compiled of all cases of property damage from the Tulsa Race Massacre. Includes names, addresses, case numbers, a list of property loss.
Date: unknown
Creator: Tulsa Race Riot (Massacre) Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
NAACP membership brochure (open access)

NAACP membership brochure

Brochure explaining the history, goals, and benefits of joining the NAACP.
Date: unknown
Creator: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Photocopies of Newspaper Clippings from the Douglas Tribune (open access)

Photocopies of Newspaper Clippings from the Douglas Tribune

Photocopies of newspaper clippings related to Douglass High School
Date: January 1939
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Article "White Management for Langston University" (open access)

Article "White Management for Langston University"

Photocopy of a newspaper clipping regarding a suggestion by a Logan County Senator to install a white manager for Langston.
Date: April 1939
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Article on Thomas H. Black Jr. (open access)

Article on Thomas H. Black Jr.

Article in the C.A. and N. University Bulletin announcing the graduation of Thomas H. Black Jr., the first student to receive a B.S. in agriculture.
Date: [1923,1924]
Creator: Young, I.W. & Jackson, T.H.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Letter to the NAACP Field Director regarding irregularities in an election (open access)

Letter to the NAACP Field Director regarding irregularities in an election

Letter regarding a series of irregularities in a state election as well as violations of the state constitution
Date: September 18, 1995
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Article "Booker Washington High School Grows" (open access)

Article "Booker Washington High School Grows"

Newspaper article regarding Booker Washington High School
Date: 1937
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Photocopy of a newspaper articles from The Oklahoma Eagle (open access)

Photocopy of a newspaper articles from The Oklahoma Eagle

Newspaper articles regarding race relations and the film "The Birth of a Nation"
Date: June 4, 1938
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History