As we enter the last full week of Black History Month, I encourage each of us to more deeply explore the richness and complexity of Black history in Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Bar Association will honor a number of legal professionals from across the state, including nine from Oklahoma City, when it holds its annual meetings Nov. 10-12.
Andy Rieger for The Transcript May 16, 2021
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Thousands of University of Oklahoma graduates will finally get the chance to walk across the stage this weekend.
The pandemic will forever join the classes of 2020 and 2021. Itâs a historic occasion, but not quite as significant as the graduation that took place in the football stadium 70 years ago this summer.
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, the first Black student to be admitted and graduate from the OU College of Law, was a member of the Class of 1951. It took a United States Supreme Court ruling on Jan. 12, 1948 for her to be admitted to the law school.
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.”
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young woman sits at a desk with one of the country’s most powerful attorneys stationed over her right shoulder.