Notes and Documents, Spring 2019 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 2019

Notes and Documents column including Larry O'Dell's "Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame," which provides short biographical sketches of Dianna Everett, Helen Freudenberger Holmes, Emmy Scott Stidham, and Mary Jo Watson, the 2019 inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: O'Dell, Larry
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sooner State "Boy Wonder": The Oklahoma Roots of Willmoore Kendall's Thought (open access)

Sooner State "Boy Wonder": The Oklahoma Roots of Willmoore Kendall's Thought

Article explores the life and achievements of Willmoore Kendall, and the influence of his Oklahoma upbringing on his conservative political theory.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Owen, Christopher H.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Thurgood Marshall's "Broom Closet": The Structure of Segregation in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (open access)

Thurgood Marshall's "Broom Closet": The Structure of Segregation in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents

Article examines the circumstances that led up to the court case McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents and how lawyers Thurgood Marshall and Amos T. Hall fought for equal treatment of George McLaurin, an African-American student who was admitted to the University of Oklahoma College of Education in 1948, but physically separated from his classmates and made to enter his classroom through a separate door.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Lomazoff, Eric & Gregory, Bailie
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History