Anna Bauman • @annabauman2
In January 1946, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher first set foot on the North Oval at the University of Oklahoma. What she did that day set in motion a three-year legal battle that would captivate the state, tear down institutional barriers and leave an impact on OU and beyond that remains today.
This is the first installation of a three-part
OU Daily series exploring the stories of prominent black women in OU history.
Details in the story are drawn from observation, interviews and Sipuel Fisher’s autobiography, “A Matter of Black and White.”
A
young woman sits at a desk with one of the country’s most powerful attorneys stationed over her right shoulder.