Alice Lee Elliott Memorial Academy: A School for Choctaw Freedmen (open access)

Alice Lee Elliott Memorial Academy: A School for Choctaw Freedmen

Article explores the history of Oak Hill Industrial Academy (also known as Alice Lee Elliott Memorial Academy) one of the only schools that provided education to Choctaw freedmen and other black citizens in the area of Valliant, Oklahoma. Joy McDougal Smith traces the history of the school, from its establishment to closing, and includes details about the people who taught and studied there.
Date: Autumn 1994
Creator: Smith, McDougal Joy
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wheelock Female Seminary 1842-1861: The Acculturation and Christianization of Young Choctaw Women (open access)

Wheelock Female Seminary 1842-1861: The Acculturation and Christianization of Young Choctaw Women

Article describes the establishment of Wheelock Female Seminary by Christian missionaries Alfred and Harriet Wright through the influence of Choctaws of mixed descent who advocated for education and acculturation of the female students.
Date: Spring 1991
Creator: Murphy, Justin D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History