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Maurice Halperin: From Sooner Subversive to Soviet Spy (open access)

Maurice Halperin: From Sooner Subversive to Soviet Spy

Article chronicles the investigation into Maurice Halperin and other suspected Communist spies, and the eventual release of information proving Halperin's guilt.
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: Brewer, Landry
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.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History