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[Photograph 2012.201.B1215.0058]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The huge church at Corn was unroofed but left fairly intact as a twister ripped through the town and played havoc with private homes. Colony was also hit."
Date: 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Address of Judge C. Ross Hume

Description: Article is an address given by Judge C. Ross Hume to dedicate the landmark where the Five Civilized Tribes agreed to form an Indian Confederacy of the Plains.
Date: Winter 1931
Creator: Lewis, Anna & Hume, C. Ross
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Why Educate the Indians?

Description: Article is a speech from the Secretary of War regarding why Indigenous Americans should receive an education. This speech was given at the Commencement Exercises of Bacone College.
Date: Autumn 1931
Creator: Hurley, Patrick J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Lily-White" Juries on Trial: The Civil Rights Defense of Jess Hollins

Description: Article describes the proceedings of the court case against Jess Hollins in 1931, who had allegedly raped a white woman, and the discourse over the racial imbalance in U.S. court juries it inspired. Roger W. Cummins closely examines the details of the case, and provides examples of other cases handled poorly in evidence of a racial bias.
Date: Summer 1985
Creator: Cummins, Roger W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0094.0185]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The New Council as It Preps red to Open Its First Meeting Surrounded by the eight members of the city council, Clarence J. Blinn was sworn in as mayor of Oklahoma City Tuesday by E. F. Lester."
Date: 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0142.0060]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Below is a scene in the criminal court of appeals courtroom, when surviving members of the constitutional convention gathered for a business meeting prior to occupying seats immediately in front of the inaugural stand."
Date: 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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