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Will Rogers High School: The Public Works Administration, Progressive Education, and a Modern School
This article details the pedagogical planning and architectural design of Tulsa's Will Rogers High School.
Date:
Winter 2007
Creator:
Ambler, Cathy
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
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
Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence
Photograph of L to R: 1. Betty Price 2. Sandy Garrett. 20th Anniversary Academic Awards by The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, Renaissance Hotel & Convention Center, Tulsa, OK. Photo by C.R. Cowen, May 20, 2006.
Date:
May 20, 2006
Creator:
Cowen, C. R.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence
Photograph of L to R: 1. UNIDENTIFIED 2. Betty Price. 20th Anniversary Academic Awards by The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, Renaissance Hotel & Convention Center, Tulsa, OK. Photo by C.R. Cowen, May 20, 2006.
Date:
May 20, 2006
Creator:
Cowen, C. R.
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Letter from Mary Jones-Wilkinson to Eleanor Brown, November 19, 2002]
Letter from Mary R. Jones-Wilkinson to Eleanor Brown discussing the induction ceremonies to the Oklahoma Aviation Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Aviator's article on the WASP. Includes a hand-written message stating, "So good to see you in Tucson!"
Date:
November 19, 2002
Creator:
Jones-Wilkinson, Mary
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Tulsa Storms]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about storm damage in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The story aired at 10:00 P.M.
Date:
June 13, 2005
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type:
Article
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.
Object Type:
Article
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
Object Type:
Article
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
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Power for the People: Developing the Grand River Dam Authority, Part 2, 1945-1964
This article is the second part of a two-part article on the Grand River Dam Authority. In this part, the author analyzes the state agency's history after World War II. Only one-third complete in 1945, the GRDA operated only Pensacola Dam. Over the next three decades Senators Elmer Thomas and Robert S. Kerr guided the federal legislation that would allow the Authority to complete its flood control dams and power generation/distribution facilities in the watershed of the Grand River.
Date:
Autumn 2009
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Object Type:
Article
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.
Object Type:
Article
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
Object Type:
Article
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
Object Type:
Article
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.
Object Type:
Article
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
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Story about possible discrimination from American Payment Systems
Story regarding two small business owners who were not allowed to pay their water bill with American Payment Systems because of complaints from the city of Tulsa.
Date:
November 4, 2005
Creator:
Thompson, Pleas A.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
International Forest of Friendship, 25th Celebration, 2001
Supplementary publication outlining events and information for the 25th International Forest of Friendship celebration, which memorializes contributors to aviation and aerospace with engraved plaques in the forest. It includes portraits and biographical sketches for the 40 people to be honored in 2001.
Date:
June 14, 2001
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Interview with D. C. and Selby Minner
Photograph of an interview with D. C. and Selby Minner by a host Rick Wells holding a poster on Ch6TV Tulsa.
Date:
August 30, 2001
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Ed. 1 Sunday, November 27, 2005
Weekly newspaper from Tulsa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 27, 2005
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 79, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 2000
Weekly newspaper from Tulsa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 6, 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 79, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 2000
Weekly newspaper from Tulsa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 13, 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 79, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 20, 2000
Weekly newspaper from Tulsa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 20, 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History