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Article covers the Oklahoma City worker's strike in 1969 when sanitation workers, mostly African Americans, went on strike for higher wages and better working conditions. The article expounds on the reasons for the strike, the attention it received locally and nationally from African American politicians and organizations, and the results of the resolve of the strikers and their supporters.
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Article examining Oklahoma's first woman representative in the United States Congress, Alice Mary Robertson. In this article Robertson's attitudes toward suffrage, feminism, and women at home and in politics, are explored.
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Article describes the traveling health caravan known as the Child Welfare Special and the founding of the United States Children's Welfare Bureau. Dan Lawrence explores how Dr. Maggie Koenig, one of the members of the traveling health clinic, contributed to the history of public health education.
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Article contrasts the romanticized Hollywood image of the outlaw popular in Western films and fiction with the brutal reality of several gangs of outlaws as well as a handful of notable individuals active in Oklahoma and Indian Territories in the late nineteenth centuries.
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Article examines the history of community banking in Freedom, Oklahoma through interviews conducted by the author in support of the Oklahoma History Center's Crossroads of Commerce: A History of Free Enterprise in Oklahoma exhibit. Michael J. Hightower explores the growth of industry and banking in Oklahoma's smallest city.
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Article commemorates the anniversary of the founding of the Oklahoma Historical Society by relating its growth and accomplishments over its 125 years of existence. Bob L. Blackburn returns to update his article from the Winter 1992-93 issue of the Chronicles of Oklahoma and include the events of the past twenty-five years.
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Article covers the struggle the Quapaw Tribe faced to obtain fair mining leases in the rich mining region they had been relocated to in northeastern Oklahoma, as well as to attain rights to self-determination despite suppression by federal policy.
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Article describes the events that led to the Tulsa Outrage of 1917, including the emergence of the "Knights of Liberty" a vigilante group grown from the Tulsa Council of Defense which persecuted members of labor organizations and whose actions foreshadowed later violence committed by the Ku Klux Klan.
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Article describes the life of Black Beaver, a Delaware scout who acted as an interpreter and guide for white explorers, also improving relations with various tribes as an Indian agent and representative.
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Article proposes that after a century or more of both the causes and the results of "boom and bust" have become ingrained in Oklahoman's attitudes and beliefs about themselves and about life. This research adds an anthropological layer to the story of the Sooner State.
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Article explains the importance of the position of poet laureate and evaluates the contributions of the individuals who held that post in Oklahoma.
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Article explores the circumstances surrounding the decision to move starving Rocky Mountain elk from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to the Wichita Mountains National Forest and Game Preserve in southwestern Oklahoma in 1911, and the Progressive conservation ideals behind bringing the elk to Oklahoma.
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Article explores the parallel paths in Oklahoma banking history of brothers F. P. and H. M. Johnson. The brothers came from Mississippi to Oklahoma and made names for themselves in their own banking ventures across the state before teaming up to create the First National Bank and Trust Company in Oklahoma City.
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Article describes the history of Building 3001 at Tinker Air Force Base, where Oklahoman workers produced thousands of C-47 military aircraft during World War II. The building was nicknamed the "Gooney Bird" after the Albatross, clumsy on the ground but beautiful in flight.
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Article discusses the Clegern family and sheds light on a crucial time in the growth of three different Oklahoma cities. William Clegern and his son, Harry, were entrepreneurs who found opportunity in the 1889 Land Run. In addition, they influenced the development of Oklahoma City, Edmond, and Henryetta.
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Article explains the friendly rivalry between the Camp Fire Girls and the Boy Scouts as the groups worked to improve the urban landscape in Oklahoma City.
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Article describes the life and career of John Reed Swanton, an anthropologist in the early 20th century who researched the oral tradition of Southeastern Native American peoples.
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Article describes the life and career of Carl Albert, Oklahoma Congressman for Oklahoma's Third Congressional District and eventual Speaker of the US House of Representatives. David W. Clark explores the ways Carl Albert assisted the American Indian community through beneficial policies supporting self-determination and opposition to policies terminating tribes.
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Article traces the history of baseball at the Cherokee Male Seminary, chronicling the names of the men who played and the successes and failures of the teams.
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