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1923–2011
Clara Luper received her bachelor s degree from Langston University in 1944 and her master s degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1951, becoming the first Black graduate student in the OU History program. Luper went on to become the adviser for the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council. The Youth Council staged a sit-in at Oklahoma City s Katz drugstore in 1958, launching a national sit-in movement to demonstrate against segregation. She continued her non-violent activism, participating in marches, demonstrations and was jailed numerous times for her Civil Rights work.
Former Gov. Mary Fallin
1957–
Mary Fallin became Oklahoma s first female governor when she took office on January 10, 2011. Fallin also made history as the first woman to be elected lieutenant governor of Oklahoma, a position she served in from 1995-2007. She was then elected to the 110th Congress, which was only the second time a woman had represented Oklahoma in Congress. When Fallin took office,
MiamiFloridaUnited-statesTahlequahOklahomaKiowaBethany-high-schoolIllinoisFort-worthTexasPauls-valleyCleveland-countySan Diego entrepreneur Arnholt Smith, one of Nixon’s earliest supporters, remembered a melancholy evening in the early ’60s when Nixon was holding a meeting and asked him to get Pat out of the way. “Pat was not feeling well physically, and even worse.mentally,” Smith said. “Dick sent word, ‘Could I please take her and hide her from the public, so to speak, let her rest her mind and what have you.’”
Gadfly Abraham Briloff (left) helped expose infamous San Diego accounting scandals such as C. Arnholt Smith’s (right) U.S. National Bank debacle.
Half a century ago, C. Arnholt Smith was “Mr. San Diego.” Smith and his close colleagues, along with relatives, owned and controlled a slew of assets that would be traded back and forth at inflated prices. The bank would do the financing. The Securities and Exchange Commission pointed out that these deals were put together to hoodwink auditors into believing the transactions were at arm’s length when in fact they were
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