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[Photograph 2012.201.TP0392.0603]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Part of the huge oil slick that covered most of the harbor and beaches at Santa Barbara, Calif., is corralled Thursday by a log boom at the entrance to the harbor."
Date: 1969
Creator: 3rd Party
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.TP0392.0606]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "INPECTING OIL SLICK off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel got this view of oil surging to the surface."
Date: 1969
Creator: 3rd Party
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.TP0392.0590]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Oil sprays from an off-shore drilling rig into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana after the control valve broke in rough seas."
Date: 1969
Creator: 3rd Party
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.TP0392.0607]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "OIL AND GAS BUBBLING to the surface of the ocean beside a drilling platform six miles off the coast at Santa Barbara., Calif., create a vast oil slick which is posing a threat to beaches and wildlife."
Date: 1969
Creator: 3rd Party
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0112.0684]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Capt. Leland J. Brumley of Duncan is followed by Col. Robert B. Rheault, as the two men leave officers' mess at the long Binh, South Vietnam, military base."
Date: 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1435.0497]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lt. Col. Clint Chambers, 37, of Chickasha, just returned from a four-month mission of mercy to civilians in Vietnam's war-torn Mekong Delta, now says he intends to make the air force a career."
Date: 1969
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The 1969 Oklahoma City Garbage Strike

Description: 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.
Date: Winter 2010
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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