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The Fear of "Negro Domination": The Rise of Segregation and Disfranchisement in Oklahoma
This article addresses the issue of the rise of segregation and disfranchisement in the frontier West. It looks closely at the sociopolitical climate in Oklahoma to answer important questions about the opportunities blacks found in the state and how white politicians became emboldened by the fear of "Negro domination."
Date:
Spring 2000
Creator:
Wickett, Murray R.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cultural Conservation and Revival: The Caddo and Hasinai Post-Removal Era, 1860-1902
Article discusses the post-removal period of 1860-1902 for the Caddo and Hasinai people of the Southern Plains: the difficulties they faced, prominent leaders of the tribes, cultural traditions, and the ways they found to keep their communities intact.
Date:
Autumn 2001
Creator:
Meredith, Howard L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Brothers of Influence: Auguste and Pierre Chouteau and the Osages before 1804
This article explores the pivotal roles that Auguste and Pierre Chouteau played in the European influence on the Osage tribe in the late eighteenth century which radically altered Osage social structure.
Date:
Autumn 2000
Creator:
Hurt, Douglas A.
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
Amazing Grace: The Influence of Christianity in Nineteenth-Century Oklahoma Ozark Music and Society
Article analyzes the effect of religious culture on the development of music in Southeastern Oklahoma, as expressed in hymn singing, temperance songs, instruments, and play-parties.
Date:
Winter 2008
Creator:
Castro, J. Justin
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"And The Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day": Drought and the Cherokee Outlet Land Run
This article details the difficulties that settlers of the Cherokee Outlet faced and how they coped with adverse conditions. Many environmental and economic factors contributed to their success or failure, including a major drought on the Southern Plains that coincided with the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in 1893.
Date:
Winter 2003
Creator:
Sweeney, Kevin Z.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"An anxiety to do right": The Life of Judge John Hazelton Cotteral, 1864-1933
Article provides a portrait of John H. Cotteral, the first federal judge for the Western District of Oklahoma and the first Oklahoman to occupy the bench of the circuit court of appeals. The article explores both the man and the legal opinions he wrote throughout his forty-year career.
Date:
Autumn 2000
Creator:
Leitch, Kevin C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Any Woman That Could Ride a Horse Could Fly": Dorothy K. Pressler Morgan, 1930s Oklahoma Aviatrix
Article describes the role of Dorothy Pressler Morgan in aviation history. In 1930 Dorothy Pressler Morgan became the second female pilot licensed in Oklahoma by the U.S. Department of Commerce. She was also known as Oklahoma City's best stunt pilot, an altitude-record setter, and the nation's first female airport manager.
Date:
Spring 2006
Creator:
Fugate, Tally D.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"America, Love It or Leave It": Some Native American Initiatives to Move to Mexico, 1890-1940
Article describes the emigration to Mexico initiative some Native American tribes in Oklahoma considered between 1890 and 1940. Steven Crum also describes the national government's response to these efforts and references the similarity of the 1960s phrase coined in the article's title.
Date:
Winter 2001
Creator:
Crum, Steven J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Anatomy of an Oklahoma Lynching: Bryan County, August 12-13, 1911
Article provides details surrounding the lynching of John Lee, a black man who attacked and killed a woman alone with her children near Durant, Oklahoma in 1911. Lowell Blaisdell describes the history of racial violence in the area, including other lynching incidents, and the circulation of rumors and paranoia that went hand-in-hand with the attitudes of the era.
Date:
Autumn 2001
Creator:
Blaisdell, Lowell L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Alex Howat versus John Wilkinson: Power, Personality, and Ideological Battles in the United Mine Workers
Article examines the factional in-fighting that tore apart the United Mine Workers solidarity as they prepared to strike in 1922. The ideological battle starred John Wilkinson, "renegade radical" Alex Howat, and Oscar Ameringer.
Date:
Spring 2005
Creator:
Sewell, Steven L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"The Best Our Country Has To Offer": Peace Corps Training at the University of Oklahoma
Article describes the Peace Corps training program in the 1960s-80s at the University of Oklahoma, which included language, technical, and cultural training. Experienced international trainer Richard H. Hancock relates stories from his own travels as well as those gained while working with the recruits at OU.
Date:
Autumn 2002
Creator:
Hancock, Richard H.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Bisque Dolls in the Archaeological Record: A Collection from the Town of Ingersoll
Article examines a collection of bisque dolls from the abandoned town of Ingersoll, Oklahoma and discusses the history of doll production, the town itself, and the recreational use of the dolls.
Date:
Autumn 2001
Creator:
Brooks, Robert L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Black, White, and Read: The Muskogee Daily Phoenix's Coverage of the Sequoyah Statehood Convention of 1905
Article provides a portrayal of the Sequoyah Statehood Convention, a gathering of the leaders of the "Five Civilized Tribes" in Oklahoma to propose the creation of a state separate from Oklahoma Territory, Sequoyah. Richard Mize's account relies on the newspaper coverage by the Muskogee Daily Phoenix, and highlights the voice and opinions of the paper's editor, Clarence B. Douglas.
Date:
Summer 2004
Creator:
Mize, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sooner State Civil Liberties in Perilous Times, 1940-1941, Part 1: The Oklahoma Federation for Constitutional Rights
The first part of this two-part article examines citizen action in Oklahoma initiated in the fall of 1940 by the creation of the Oklahoma Federation of Constitutional Rights to preserve and defend freedom of speech, which later faced investigation by the legislature.
Date:
Winter 2006
Creator:
Wiegand, Wayne A. & Wiegand, Shirley A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"The Indian Home is Undone": Anglo Intrusion, Colonization, and the Creek Nation, 1867-1907
Article describes the history of Anglo-American intrusion and colonization of Creek lands within Indian Territory in Oklahoma, as well as the response of the Creek Nation in the face of interference, forced relocation, and allotments. Douglas A. Hurt describes the way the Creeks strengthened their communities during a time of unrest.
Date:
Summer 2005
Creator:
Hurt, Douglas A.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"An Indian Shall Not spill an Indian's Blood": The Confederate-Indian Conference at Camp Napoleon, 1865
Article provides a thorough discussion of the conference at Camp Napoleon, one of the largest intertribal gatherings in Indian Territory. In 1865, the Five Civilized Tribes, allies of the Confederacy, undertook efforts to negotiate and make peace with the Plains tribes at the close of the Civil War.
Date:
Spring 2005
Creator:
Clampitt, Brad R.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Humanitarian Rhetoric and Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Policy
Article discusses the rhetoric used by Andrew Jackson during his time as United States president in his support of the removal of the Five Tribes from the southeastern United States. Henry E. Fritz argues that Jackson's rhetoric reveals he was an ethnocentric nationalist who also felt he had a moral obligation to the Tribes, despite the fact that their well-being was not his foremost concern.
Date:
Spring 2001
Creator:
Fritz, Henry E.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Inside the School Yard Gate: "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and Education in Oklahoma
Article describes the life and political career of William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and his efforts to promote free access to education and textbooks in the Oklahoma public school system. Karen McKellips illuminates the contrast between his progressive political and economic views on reform and his support of racial segregation.
Date:
Winter 2000
Creator:
McKellips, Karen
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Inside the Store, Inside the Past: A Cultural Analysis of McAlester's General Store
Article discusses the life and entrepreneurship of James J. McAlester, owner of McAlester's General Store, a prominent establishment in the Choctaw Nation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Linda C. English takes a closer look at the growth and change of the store through its records.
Date:
Spring 2003
Creator:
English, Linda C.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Jack C. Montgomery: A Little Big Man
Article documents the life of Jack Montgomery and recalls his service with the Forty-fifth Infantry Division in World War II, where he received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the war.
Date:
Winter 2004
Creator:
Bean, Christopher B.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
H. L. Mencken and the "Oklahoma Style" of Literature
Article delineates the fascination H. L. Mencken, influential social critic, journalist, and editor, had with Oklahoma-centered literature and poetry. Lawrence R. Rodgers discusses the works of several writers the critic openly supported. Many of these writers had an affiliation with the University of Oklahoma.
Date:
Winter 2000
Creator:
Rodgers, Lawrence R.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
In Defense of Sovereignty: Cherokee Soldiers, White Officers, and Discipline in the Third Indian Home Guard
This article explores the ways in which Cherokees managed discipline in the Third Indian Home Guard of the Union army to achieve their ultimate goal to reconquer the Cherokee Nation from the Confederate forces and preserve Cherokee sovereignty.
Date:
Winter 2004
Creator:
Jones, Trevor
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
George Catlin and Archaeology: Data Drawn from the Canvas
Article compares artistic evidence of the occupation of historic locations in Oklahoma by American Indian tribes in the form of George Catlin's artwork with the archeological findings in those areas. Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko gleans information about the acculturation within the Osage, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Creek tribes during the removal period.
Date:
Autumn 2003
Creator:
Catlin-Legutko, Cinnamon
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History