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Oct 29, 2017 · As desegregation rippled from school-to-school across much of the American south, Central High School became an iconic moment in the civil rights movement, immortalizing nine black students who simply wanted to attend a school that had been restricted to just white students.
The Hidden History of Career and Technology Education in Oklahoma. A Treasury of Stories. Compiled by Craig Maile. March 2024. “This historical account is dedicated to all those persons, past and present, who have assisted in making Oklahoma vocational education the envy of other states, while devel-oping our greatest resource—people.”
- Slavery, Freedmen, and Southeast Oklahoma
- Separate But Equal in Oklahoma
- The First Desegregated School in Oklahoma
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The first black slaves began to arrive in what would become Oklahoma long before the American Civil War. They arrived during the push for westward migration. As the wild frontier began to dwindle, many white cotton farmers began to seek land in the American Southeast, primarily within the Mississippi River Valley. This was already the home of many ...
Following the Civil War, things settled down somewhat. However, the practice of indentured servitude continued. The U.S. federal government forced the Native Americans to abolish slavery. They were then required to grant the former black slaves citizenship. While this helped, most of the “freedmen” were still poor and highly untrained. Because of t...
In Poteau, the white settlement was centered on Broadway, between College and Flener streets. The largest black population worked for a Native American by the name of Benjamin H. Harper. At the time, the area where the current downtown district is was a large cotton plantation. After the railroads moved in, Mr. Harper sold his land for a small fort...
Although the information contained here came from a variety of sources, most comes from The Birth of Poteau, Poteau Public School Archives, Interviews with residents, Dr. Montgomery, and early written interviews and accounts. This content is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and indivi...
Pat Burroughson June 03, 2020: Doctor Montgomery was our vet from the start, before I ever married. My husband and I always took our pets to him after we married. He was one of the finest people I have ever known and I considered him a friend till the day he died. Poteau was so blest to have him and his family living there. Marlea Evanson May 15, 2...
Early Oklahoma. Before statehood, students usually attended one of the three types of schools: subscription, mission, or tribal. Each school used their own techniques to educate children. The most common type of school in the 1800s was called a subscription school.
1 paleontological locality, 27 isolated occurrences, and 6 current cultural manifestations were documented in addition to the school locations. This project was financed, in part, with funds provided by the Oklahoma Historical Society and the National Park Service. One of the objectives of the project was not only to increase the area
The effect of school consolidation in Oklahoma is revealed in numbers: In 1918 there were 5,783 total districts, of which 5,178 were rural one-school districts, 408 were rural consolidated or union graded in rural areas, and 197 were independent districts in cities.
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Sep 7, 2014 · The History Center exhibit is just one of five remarkable ways to learn how the children of Oklahoma pioneers and later farmers and ranchers learned reading, writing, spelling, math, history and geography in one-room schools.
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