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882 The Ohronicles of Oklahome
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS
INDEX 'TO THE CHRoNICLES, 1968
The Annual Index to The Chronicles, Vol. XLV, 1968 com-
piled by Mrs. Rella Loney, Archivist, is distributed free to
those who receive the quarterly magazine. Orders for the Annual
Index should be addressed to the Administrative Secretary, Okla-
homa Historical Society, Historical Building, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, 73105.
BELvA ANNE LocKwoOD: F2END OF THE CHEROKEES
INTaoDUcrON
From manuscript notes in the Editorial Office by the late
Carolyn Thomas Foreman, well-known contributor to The
Chronicles for many years, these on Belva Arme Lckwood are
presented for the first time in this issue of the magazine.
Mrs. Foreman expreted surprise that the Cherokees had a
brilliant advocate in Mrs. Lockwood in 1900 when she sponsored
a bill before Congress to prevent further encroachment upon
the territories of the American Indian3 in North Carolina. As a
young girl, Mrs. Foreman remembered seeing the celebrated Mrs.
Lckwood going about Washington and always regarded her
with wonder. Mrs. Foreman's surprise came in reading a column
of history about Mrs. Lockwood.'
-The Editor
BE.LVA LOCKWOOD FOR PRESIDENTT!!
She was small and slender and very handsome in her new blue gown
as she stepped onto the roughbewo platform. Above her, flags snapped
against the summer sky. Before her, the lady delegates of the Equal Rights
Party stood up and cheered.
Belva Anne Lockwood accepted their cheers and their nomination, to
become in 1884 the woman who ran for the Presidency of the United
States.
A gallant choice she was, too. Defying massive prejudice, she had
fought for and won a college education, a law degre-the first ever given
an American woman, and, finally, the right to plead cases before the Su-
preme Court. (Where, among other triumphs, she won a $5,000,000 settle-
ment for the Cherokee Indians.)
She didn't expect to be President; that wasn't her point. She would
run to make America conscious of women's right to political equality.
And run she did. Ridiculed in the press, hooted on the street, even de-
l Advertisement, a public service, on U. S. Savings Bonds in Boliday
for January, 19158, page 124.