Bobbie Allen Booker, Karen Pittman and Art Williams II, alumni of the north Tulsa high school, are being honored along with Lawrence “Night Train” Lane, longtime announcer at S.E. Williams
Filed in In Memoriam on December 15, 2020
Melvin Todd, a long-time educator and former vice chancellor for academic affairs for the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education died, on December 2 from complications relating to COVID-19. He was 87 years old.
Dr. Todd was a native of Oklahoma City. When he was 10 years old, he met W.E.B. Du Bois. After completing high school at the Palmer Memorial Institute in North Carolina, Todd returned to Oklahoma to study at historically Black Langston University, where he majored in history. He went on to earn a master’s degree and a doctorate in education from the University of Oklahoma.