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[Photograph 2012.201.B1247.0380]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Red Sisney: Described as: White-male; 41 (1945) ; 5'8; 145; eyes, blue; hair, brown; build, slender; complexion, fair; committed 07-16-45 from Nowata County for the crime of Miscegenation; sentenced to 1 year"
Date: February 4, 1946
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1247.0379]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Josie Douglas: Described as: Negro-female; 44 (1945) ; 5'3; 186; eyes, maroon; hair, black; build, fat; complexion, black; committed 07-16-45, from Nowata County for the crime of Miscegenation; sentenced 1 year"
Date: February 4, 1946
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Sexual Color Line in Red and Black: Antimiscegenation and the Sooner State

Description: Article provides an overview of antimiscegenation laws dating from the time of slavery into the statehood period in Oklahoma and examines eleven cases that reached the highest state or federal courts, most of them civil cases involving African Americans and Native Americans.
Date: Winter 2004
Creator: Robinson, Charles F., II
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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