Archive

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Oral History: Huretta Walker Dobbs

Huretta Walker Dobbs talks about growing up in northeast Oklahoma City in the 1940s and 1950s.  

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Oral History: Glen Edward Burleigh

Musician Glen Edward Burleigh talks about growing up and going to school in Oklahoma and about his life as a composer.

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Oral History: Cheryl Pennington

Cheryl Pennington talks about her life growing up in northeast Oklahoma City, and her career as a teacher for the deaf.

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Oral History: Margaret Bell Tampkins and Leonard Tampkins Jr.

Born in 1916, Margaret Bell Tamkins talks about her life growing up in northeast Oklahoma City. In the second half of the interview she is joined by her son, Leonard Tampkins Jr., who talks about being a part of a group that became the first students from Douglass High School to attend the University of Oklahoma in the early days of integration.

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Oral History: Nancy R. Davis

Nancy R. Davis talks about growing up in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, her experience as the first African-American student at Oklahoma A & M University, her career as a teacher, and her work in the Civil Rights movement.

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Oral History: Bruce Fisher

Bruce Fisher talks about his youth growing up in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma City, about his famous mother, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, and more.

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Oral History: Renee Hale

Renee Hale talks about growing up in Tulsa during the early days of integration, and her time working as a teacher.

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