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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.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Meeting of Conquerors: Art Goebel and Charles Lindbergh in Tulsa, 1927
Article recounts the meeting of Art Gobel and Charles A. Lindbergh in Tulsa in September 1927. Both aviators, Goebel was known as "The Conqueror of the Pacific," while Lindbergh was "The Conqueror of the Atlantic." Their meeting and behavior toward Oklahomans revealed much about each man's character and personality and about the American practice of hero making.
Date:
Spring 2007
Creator:
Hedglen, Thomas
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Dark Spot on the Sunbelt: Economic Stagnation and Political Corruption in 1950s Oklahoma
Article examines the roles of negative self-image and political corruption on the stagnation of Oklahoma's economic health in the 1950s.
Date:
Summer 2007
Creator:
McGoy, Matthew G.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The William Penn Elm Tree
Article is a speech given by Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson when she donated an elm tree to the University of Tulsa to commemorate the famous treaty made between William Peen and the Delaware tribe.
Date:
Summer 1933
Creator:
Lawson, Roberta Campbell
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
One Hundred Years Ago in the Region of Tulsa
Article reports on the conditions of the Indian Territory as told by surveyors a hundred years from the date this article was published. These surveyors were tasked with determining whether the region was fit enough to relocate the Creek tribes to after their removal from the east.
Date:
Summer 1933
Creator:
Gardner, James H.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sons of the American Revolution
Article announces the meeting of the Oklahoma State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution to be held on February 22, 1934.
Date:
Spring 1934
Creator:
Meserve, John Bartlett, 1869-1943
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hillside Mission
Article narrates the creation and history of the Hillside Mission, a mission school operated by the Friends Society of Philadelphia within Indian Territory.
Date:
Autumn 1926
Creator:
Miller, Floyd E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Green Yeargain and Star Route 32024
Article describes the life and career of one of the first mail carriers of Tulsa, Green Yeargain, and the route he took to deliver mail, Star Route 32024. Louise Morse Whitham includes the story of Yeargain's interview with an advisor of the Tulsa Historical Society, Lilah D. Lindsey.
Date:
Summer 1966
Creator:
Whitham, Louise Morse
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Almost Hopeless in the Wake of the Storm": The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic in Oklahoma
Article examines the impact of the Spanish flu epidemic on Oklahomans during 1918-1919. Nigel Anthony Sellars discusses the spread of the epidemic on a detailed level, identifying the medical institutions and professionals who sought to combat the epidemic as it spread from one Oklahoma city to another.
Date:
Spring 2001
Creator:
Sellars, Nigel Anthony
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Heyday in the Texas League: Oklahoma City-Tulsa Baseball, 1933-1957
Article explores the history of baseball in Oklahoma City and Tulsa through the victories and training regime of two major teams: the Oklahoma City Indians and the Tulsa Oilers. Max J. Nichols traces their plays and connection with the Texas League in a golden era of baseball.
Date:
Summer 1996
Creator:
Nichols, Max J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Judge Royce H. Savage
Article asserts that despite the controversy surrounding Judge Royce Savage's retirement from the Northern District Court, the judge's reputation for case management and dedication to pretrial conferences remains intact.
Date:
Spring 2011
Creator:
Kellough, William C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Civilian Conservation Corps in the City: Tulsa and Oklahoma City in the 1930s
Article explores the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. The Corps, formed as a part of New Deal relief labor programs, developed three urban parks in the area.
Date:
Autumn 1975
Creator:
Holland, Reid A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
There is No Place like The Home: A Brief History of the Tulsa Boys' Home
Article provides historical context for the creation of the Tulsa Boys' Home in 1918 for troubled and orphaned boys. Michael Lail describes the institutions that founded the home, namely the Tulsa Rotary Club and the First Presbyterian Church, and the growth and movement of The Home itself over the years.
Date:
Summer 2001
Creator:
Lail, Michael
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Protecting His Race: A. J. Smitherman and the Tulsa Star
Article explores the life and career of A. J. Smitherman, publisher of the Tulsa Star, who protested the mistreatment of African American citizens during the Tulsa Race Massacre and encouraged development of black resistance to racial violence. Despite the destruction and death that occurred, Smitherman continued spreading uplifting messages through the papers he published.
Date:
Autumn 2002
Creator:
O'Dell, Larry
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Capital Versus Labor in Tulsa: The Mid-Continent Refinery Strike of 1938-40
Article details the Mid-Continent Refinery Strike of 1938-40. On December 22, 1938, members of the Oil Worker's International Union, representing labor in the petroleum industry at Tulsa's Mid-Continent Refinery, shut down the plant and walked off the job. The bitter, protracted, and occasionally violent fight involved two years of investigations and negotiations.
Date:
Spring 2006
Creator:
Rubey, Diane M.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Harry Campbell
Article provides a biographical sketch of the life and career of Judge Henry Campbell, a civil and legal leader for the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Charles Evans includes some of the man's reminiscences after describing his many contributions.
Date:
Winter 1950
Creator:
Evans, Charles
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Gridiron Pioneers at Henry Kendall College
Article discusses the history of the football team at Henry Kendall College, now the University of Tulsa, including the key coaches and players who contributed to the team's success.
Date:
Autumn 1951
Creator:
Rutland, Robert
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fred Severs Clinton, M. D., F. A. C. S.
Article provides a biographical tribute to the life of Fred Severs Clinton. Louise Morse Whitham describes the life of the leading surgeon, builder, President of the Indian Territory Medical Association, and pioneer public health advocate in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Date:
Winter 1955
Creator:
Whitham, Louise Morse
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Ten-Barrel "Whodunit" at Red Fork
Article describes the oil boom that began at Red Fork, Oklahoma, and the controversy over who discovered and had rights to the oil well there.
Date:
Winter 1978
Creator:
Roberts, Joe Donald
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Hoorah for Integration!": The Adoption of the 1955 Better Schools Amendment
This article examines the campaign led by Governor Raymond D. Gary to adopt a constitutional amendment ending the time-honored special tax for separate schools and begin the process of integration after the Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Date:
Summer 2007
Creator:
Lough, Keith D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Rex Brinlee: The Man and His Escape
This article tells the story of notorious criminal Rex Brinlee, who is best known for his multiple escapes from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. The article interweaves the details of his crimes with larger state events, including the McAlester Prison Riot.
Date:
Summer 2013
Creator:
Reavis, Jack Anthony
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Antisuffragist. Antifeminist! Pro-women? The Anomalous Alice Mary Robertson
Article examining Oklahoma's first woman representative in the United States Congress, Alice Mary Robertson. In this article Robertson's attitudes toward suffrage, feminism, and women at home and in politics, are explored.
Date:
Spring 2010
Creator:
Caldwell, Deah
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Termination to Self-Determination: Indian Health in Oklahoma, 1954-1980, Part 1
Article evaluates the problems of Indian health care and the campaign led by Senator Fred Harris and others to correct a record of neglect.
Date:
Winter 2007
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From Termination to Self-Determination: Indian Health in Oklahoma, 1954-1980, Part 2
The second part of this two-part article continues the evaluation of the problems in Indian healthcare and the campaign led by Senators Fred Harris and Dewey Bartlett to correct a record of neglect. The healthcare problem after 1970 was linked to a new federal policy of tribal self-determination.
Date:
Spring 2008
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History